Pratapgarh : The couple from Uttar Pradesh, which has claimed that Gita – a hearing and speech-impaired Indian woman stranded in Pakistan – is their daughter, has approached the Ministry of External Affairs in this regard.
“An application by Anara Devi, claiming to be the mother of the girl, is being sent to the MEA,” District Magistrate Amrit Tripathi said. The couple has also attached some documents along with their application, claiming that Gita, who is in Karachi, is their daughter, the DM said.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said in last few days four families from Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have claimed Gita to be their daughter.
“We are completing the necessary formalities to bring Gita back to India,” Swaraj said in a tweet adding “I am requesting the Chief Ministers of these states to verify and report.”
Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan TCA Raghavan and his wife on Tuesday had met Gita following direction from Swaraj and assured her to locate her family as soon as possible.
According to Anara Devi and her husband Ramraj Gautam of Thammohan village under Maheshganj police station here, the girl is their daughter Savita who went missing since 2004, IG Law and order A Satish Ganesh said. Devi claimed she had left the then four-year-old daughter with her brother Narain Das in Chhapra district of Bihar in 2004, the IG said.
