New Delhi: The DCW has asked foreign secretary S. Jaishankar to help out an 83-year-old woman resident of Rajouri Garden whose father left behind several properties in Japan.

The commission said that it has received a representation from Tej Kaur who claims that her father moved to Japan in 1935 and left behind several properties and other assets in the island nation after his sudden death in 1949.

According to the DCW, the complainant’s mother and brother, in the past, had several communications with the ministry of external affairs regarding access to her father’s assets.

“She states that after death of her brother and mother in 2002, the files containing these documents came into her possession and she has persistently sought help of different authorities. In 2009, she was able to establish contact with the Indian embassy in Tokyo which wrote back to her stating they were making efforts to trace the properties of her father,” DCW chief Swati Maliwal said in her letter to the foreign secretary.

Ms Maliwal also asked the principal home secretary of Delhi government to look into the matter and asked the two authorities to submit a factual report in 15 days.