NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today announced a reward of Rs one lakh for helping Geeta, the deaf and mute Indian girl who returned home in 2015 after being stranded in Pakistan for over a decade, in uniting with her parents.
In a video appeal, Swaraj said there cannot be a better deed than helping a girl find her parents and urged those people, who know about any family which had a mute and deaf girl who went missing around 12 years back, to come forward.
“We will give Rs one lakh to anyone who helps Geeta find her parents,” Swaraj said in her appeal.
Geeta, who had returned to India in October 2015, has been staying at an institution for hearing and speech impaired people run by an NGO in Indore.
“At times she becomes very emotional and starts crying. My appeal to her parents — please come forward and take your daughter. I am assuring that we will not let her become a burden on you,” Swaraj said with Geeta by her side.
“We will take care of her including her marriage and studies. Your daughter is desperate to meet you,” she said. (AGENCIES)
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