"Geeta will be back in India soon. We have located her family. She will be handed over to the family only after the DNA test," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said here today.
Later briefing the reporters, Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry Vikas Swarup said three sets of photographs were sent to Geeta, out of which she has identified one as possibly her parents but added that a conclusive proof of parentage could be only established through DNA testing.
"If the DNA testing verifies that they are indeed her parents then she will be handed over to them. If not, we have identified two institutions one in Delhi and one in Indore- which are meant for people with certain disabilities. We believe that Geeta will find very good and welcoming home there.... The procedure to bring her back is almost complete," the Spokesperson said.
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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 the Lahore railway station.
Police took her to the Edhi Foundation in Lahore and later she was shifted to Karachi.
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, T C A Raghavan, and his wife had visited Geeta in August after Swaraj directed him to meet her and try to locate her family.