I have come to take Geeta home, says Indian lawyer

Karachi
An Indian lawyer said on Wednesday he had come from India to take blood samples of Geeta, a deaf and mute Indian girl stuck in Pakistan for over a decade, so as to help trace her family.
“There are five families in India who are claiming that Geeta is their daughter. They are poor and don’t have the resources,” Momin Malik said while talking to media persons at the city courts.
Geeta has been stranded in Pakistan for the past 13 years. The Punjab Rangers had handed her over to the Edhi Foundation after she crossed over the border on a train by mistake.
Malik said he was not interested in acquiring Geeta’s custody and had come from India only to help her.
“I just want to meet her once,” said, adding that the Indian high commissioner had done nothing for her over the past 13 years, which was why he did not approach him.
An application has already been filed by Malik through Pakistani lawyers under Section 552 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Regarding the application moved by the Indian lawyer, who claimed filing it on humanitarian grounds, Pakistani lawyer Shaukat Hayat said the Indian lawyer’s application could be challenged and his motive for wanting the custody of Geeta could also be dismissed.