PANAJI, June 3 (TIWN): An 11-year-old Polish girl, who was brought up in India and was studying in Goa until a few weeks ago, has requested the prime minister and the external affairs minister to allow her and her mother to return to India, a place that they “call home”.

In April, her mother Martushka Kotlarska had petitioned former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to reunite her with her daughter. She was denied entry at the Kempegowda international airport after being allegedly blacklisted for having overstayed her visa term. Martushka was permitted re-entry on humanitarian basis for a few days only, when she picked up her daughter.