Experts from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had earlier collected samples for DNA tests to confirm if Janardhan Mahato, who claimed that Geeta is his first-born Heera, is indeed her father.
While the report was submitted to the ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Thursday, sources claimed that the samples did not match with the claimant, confirming that he is not Geeta’s father.
Interestingly, Geeta, who returned from Pakistan after a gap of 15 years, had also refused to recognise the Mahato couple from Bihar despite having earlier identified them as her family through photographs while she was in Karachi.
Ever since her return, Geeta has been staying at an institution in Indore for the hearing-impaired. Prior to the test, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had also said that Geeta had refused to identify the Mahatos as her family. “If the DNA sample does not match with the samples of the Mahato couple, then the government will start afresh the process to find her parents,” she had said.
Geeta, now 23, was reportedly just seven or eight years old when she was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers at Lahore railway station. She was adopted by Edhi Foundation’s Bilquis Edhi and lived with her in Karachi. Her story came to light after the release of Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan, in which the hero helps unite a girl separated from her Pakistani mother while visiting India.
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