Geeta’s Stepmother New Claim Gives The Story A New Twist

Earlier this week, it was reported that Geeta recognized her parents when she was provided a picture.

In the latest development in the story of a deaf-mute Indian woman stuck in Pakistan for more than a decade, the family members have now claimed that the woman was married and has a son.

The girl for the first time talked to her family on Saturday, through a video link.

The Home Ministry will use this clause to grant “certificate of citizenship in case of doubt” to Geeta when she arrives in India on October 26.

Geeta was reportedly just seven or eight years old when she was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers 15 years ago at Lahore railway station.

A new ray of hope for the woman, known only as Ms Geeta, came after the Indian High Commission in Islamabad sent her a photograph of a family, whom she said she recognised. “She is a daughter of India… we will be bringing her back very, very shortly”, said Mr Vikas Swarup, India’s foreign ministry spokesman. They asked several questions to Geeta and she replied to their questions her own language.

Geeta, who is hearing and speech impaired, is the guest of Edhi Foundation at Karachi. She now lives in one of the foundation’s shelters in Karachi.

They came to know about the travails of Geeta/Heera from the father, added the SDO saying now everything depends on the governments’ of Pakistan and India as well as subject to DNA tests of the father Jainandan Mahato and Geeta/Heera.