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.
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.
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 , .
Geeta, who strayed into Pakistan, returned in 2015, finally finds her family in Maharashtra Geeta finds family
Geeta, the deaf and mute woman, who had mistakenly crossed over to Pakistan as a child and was brought back to India after 12 years in 2015, may have finally found her family in Maharashtra.
Referring to the Edhi Trust in Pakistan, Pakistan-based newspaper The Dawn reported that Geeta has been in touch with the welfare organisation in Pakistan and had recently told them that she has finally found her family after over five years since her return to India.
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Dawn reported that Bilquees Edhi the wife of late Abdul Sattar Edhi, who runs the world famous Edhi Welfare Trust and who developed a close bond with Geeta, said the Indian girl had finally been reunited with her real mother in Maharashtra state.