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DNA test clears UK abandoned kid’s journey home
WSN Network

HOSHIARPUR: The DNA tests of an 11-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in London last year have established that he belongs to a family near Tanda town in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district and would be returning home soon, family members said Sunday.Several families, including those from Punjab and Bihar, had laid claim to the boy after he was found abandoned in London’s Asian-dominated Southall area.

The boy, Gurinderjit Singh, had no idea how he landed in London and could converse only in Punjabi in the English-speaking country. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s office confirmed the DNA test results to BJP MP Avinash Rai Khanna who took a keen interest in the case. “Our High Commission at London has informed that as per DNA report of Oct 27, 2008, Kuldeep Singh has been identified as the paternal uncle of Gurinderjit Singh,” the minister wrote to the MP.

“The child - at present under interim care of Ealing Council, London - has desired to return to India to stay with his paternal uncle. A local court has consentedthat the council should make plans for the child’s future and send him back to India,” according to the communique. Kuldeep Singh, a farmer who lives in a village near Tanda town, 180 km from Chandigarh, had laid claim to the boy after media reports about him.

7 January 2009
 

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