#Faridabad woman, daughter rescued from #German refugee camp

New Delhi, February 4

An Indian woman in distress and her daughter, living in a refugee camp in Germany, reached India on Thursday after she appealed to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for help.“I am most grateful to Government of India for facilitating my return to India,” Gurpreet who hailed from Faridabad said on her arrival in New Delhi.“We have brought Gurpreet and her eight-year-old daughter from the refugee camp to our Consulate in Frankfurt,” Swaraj had tweeted yesterday.Gurpreet posted a short video on Twitter, requesting for help. She had alleged that she and her daughter had been kept in a refugee camp in Germany by her husband’s family.Following her request, Swaraj directed the Indian Consulate General in Frankfurt to help the woman.In another tweet, Swaraj complimented Indian Ambassador to Germany Gurjit Singh and Consul General in Frankfurt Raveesh Kumar for helping the woman and her child.Gurpreet said she and her daughter wanted to go back to India as soon as possible and claimed she was taken to Germany by her in-laws in a “fraudulent” way.Recently, Swaraj had tweeted that Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh will handle the problems of the Indian diaspora. — PTI