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Sisters united with family after eleven years

LUCKNOW, OCT. 15. In a scene reminiscent of a Bollywood pot-boiler, three sisters were united with their long-lost family at the Rajkiya Balika Bal Grah here after eleven long years.

The three sisters, Naseema (20), Ameena (16) and Aruna (12) had no inkling that a matrimonial given in the newspapers for the marriage of the eldest would unite them with their lost family.

Shahnaz Sidrat, president of the Bazm-e-Khawateen, (a social welfare organisation working for uplift of women) who visited the home to help find a suitable match after coming across the matrimonial last month was told about their desire to return home.

The sisters spoke about their village Mitli in Baghpat and about their family and urged for finding the other members, Sidrat said adding that with the help of some other social organisations like All India Taleemgar, which has a branch in Baghpat, they traced Waseem, the brother of the trio now 21, who had since shifted to Badaut in Meerut.

After coming to know that Waseem too was as keen to meet his sisters, he was brought to Lucknow yesterday where he was reunited with them, Sidrat said.

The inquiries into the background of the sisters, while tracing their brother also bought to light the fact that their mother, Nafisa is presently lodged in the model jail, Lucknow and the four siblings were taken to the jail to meet their mother, Sidrat said.

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