The External Affairs Ministry is trying to bring back an Indian boy from Jessore in Bangladesh, after he was said to be missing from Delhi in 2010.
A senior official in the Indian High Commission in Dhaka is travelling to Jessore in southwestern Bangladesh to meet 12-year-old Sonu on the directive of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Officials to visit Jessore “Our Joint Secretary Bangladesh Sripriya Ranganathan has met Mehboob and Mumtaz who claim that Sonu presently in Bangladesh is their son. Our High Commission officials in Dhaka will visit Jessore where Sonu is lodged in a Children’s Shelter Home in Pulerhat (Jessore),” the Minister tweeted.
“We will match Sonu’s DNA with couple claiming to be his parents. In case DNA test is positive, we will bring Sonu to India without delay,” she said in a series of tweets.
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Earlier, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup had tweeted: “A First Secretary from Dhaka is going to Jessore today to meet with Sonu.”
The details of how the boy had gone missing are not yet known.