Mumbai: Around 40 families from all over the country have claimed that a deaf and dumb girl who had accidentally gone to Pakistan in her childhood and returned to India is their missing daughter. Currently, under the care of Anand Service Society - an organisation working for the protection and rehabilitation of the specially-abled people, Geeta has been in India for five years now.
Families from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Telangana, Bihar and Jharkhand have claimed Geeta to be their missing daughter and DNA tests have been conducted to ascertain the truth. However, no matches were found until now.
DNA tests for many more claimants are yet to be done.
Anand Service Society has taken Geeta and visited many villages in Maharashtra and Telangana and a search is also being carried out at railway stations according to her description of the parents she remembers.
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Approximately 30-years-old deaf and dumb Geeta had accidentally gone to Pakistan some 20 years ago in Lahore express. The Pakistani rangers had found her sitting in Samjhauta Express at Lahore station. On 26th October 2015, she was brought back to India after special efforts by the then minister of external affairs late Sushma Swaraj.
She is now living in with Anand Service Society based at Indore while searching for her biological parents and travelling to Maharashtra and Telangana for the purpose.
Ramesh Solase, a Nasik resident had claimed that Geeta was a kid when her mother had abandoned her in a train at Nasik Road. He had guessed that Geeta may have reached Delhi and Lahore by train.
To support his claim, Ramesh had also shown a birth certificate of Geeta and also shown a photo of his wife Asha, but Geeta has denied the claim.
