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Geeta (Image Credits: IANS)
The dream of the late Minister of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to help a deaf-mute girl who had strayed into Pakistan some 20 years ago reunite with her family, was finally fulfilled here last week.
The girl, named as Geeta , 29, returned to her home in Parbhani, after a frantic search of over five years since Sushma Swaraj ensured her repatriation to India in 2015, and reunited with family, feeling safe, sound and smiling with joy.
This is the second such reunion witnessed in two different districts of Maharashtra in the past two months which moved the people of the state.
Parbhani (Maharashtra): No DNA test has been conducted yet but for 29-year-old Geeta, the deaf and mute woman, who returned to India in 2015 after inadvertently straying into Pakistan when she was nine, the search for her biological mother may have ended, an NGO says.
Geeta, who returned to India on October 26, 2015 after intervention by then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, was initially lodged at a facility of a hearing and speech impaired institute run by an Indore-based NGO.
The over five-year-long search to find Geeta s family led to Parbhani in Maharashtra, where she is now being trained in sign language by Pahal, an NGO working for the hearing and speech impaired.
Meena Pandhare, a woman from Jintur in Maharashtra's Parbhani district, has claimed that Geeta is her daughter, which will now be confirmed after a DNA test.
Sushma Swaraj s dream realised: Lost in Pakistan, Geeta reunited with mother
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Last Updated: Mar 11, 2021, 02:25 PM IST
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After she landed in India over six years ago, a massive nationwide search was launched by the government, semi-government agencies, NGOs like the Anand Service Society (ASS) of Indore, which was handed Geeta s custody in July 2020.
The girl, named Geeta , 29, returned to her home in Parbhani, after a frantic search of over five years since Sushma Swaraj ensured her repatriation to India in 2015.
The dream of the late Minister of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to help a deaf-mute girl who had strayed into Pakistan some 20 years ago reunite with her family, was finally fulfilled here last week.