Gita Chandra Gita Chandra was the wife of Haresh Chandra and the mother of Rani Chandra . She ran her own flower shop , called Bloomin ' Lovely . Biography . Gita ' s parents , the Vermas , moved in the 1960s from India to England . They settled in Nottingham . From there the family had spread across the country . ( PROSE : " Day of the Clown " ) Gita met Haresh at a museum where she was seeking refuge from the rain . They fell in love and got married , but Gita did not enjoy their honeymoon in Brussels . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " , " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) Gita , Haresh and their daughter , Rani , moved to Bannerman Road when children were being abducted by Odd Bob the Clown . When Gita first met Sarah Jane Smith , she told her Rani wanted to be a journalist like Sarah and believed Rani to be doing work experience with Sarah when she was helping defeat the Pied Piper . Gita was an easy - going , sociable person . In contrast with Maria ' s mother , she quickly embraced her neighbours from over the road , and saw them as positive influences on her daughter ' s life . She also appeared to have a strong bond with her husband . She claimed the reason she had recently gained weight was because her husband had a Dawn French fetish . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) She was a Gemini and one of the first to be taken over by Martin Trueman and the Ancient Lights . She became a member of Trueman ' s inner circle , although she seemed to have no memory of what had happened during the incident after Trueman was defeated . ( TV : " Secrets of the Stars " ) She briefly let Clyde Langer visit Rani but was nearly erased from time until Sarah Jane restored everything . Clyde and Rani in the meantime met an alternate timeline version of her . ( TV : " The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith " ) While working in her flower shop she was kidnapped by Mrs Wormwood and put in a trance . Mrs Wormwood did this to catch Sarah Jane ' s attention . Gita was rescued when the Bane tried to catch and eat Mrs Wormwood alive . She seemed to have no memory of the incident . Later that day , Cal Kilburne went to Sarah Jane ' s house . She found him and invited him in for coffee . He led her to believe that he was Sarah Jane ' s nephew but in fact he was Bane . ( TV : " Enemy of the Bane " ) She later attempted to get work from Genetec Systems by placing flowers in the foyer , but was taken by security . She and Haresh escaped and encountered alien Judoon . They returned home and Gita happily exclaimed to Rani and Sarah Jane that she saw aliens . Rani took her inside for a cup of tea . ( TV : " Prisoner of the Judoon " ) Gita met Sarah Jane ' s new boyfriend , Peter Dalton , and took an immediate shine to him , proclaiming him " dishy " . She later attended Sarah Jane and Peter ' s wedding , also providing floral arrangements for the ceremony . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) In September 2009 , Haresh and Gita Chandra stayed several days in Danemouth to visit relatives . Meanwhile Rani stayed at Sarah Jane ' s house . ( AUDIO : " Wraith World " ) Before Luke left for University of Oxford , Sarah Jane brought him some boxes to pack his things into . Sarah Jane told him Gita had given them to her and had also offered to help pack . ( TV : " The Nightmare Man " ) Gita also came to Luke ' s second farewell party , that Luke threw before he left . She went there together with Haresh and Rani . ( PROSE : " The Nightmare Man " ) In 2010 , Gita dragged Haresh to B . U . R . P . S . S and explained her meeting with two aliens . When they returned home , Gita saw Androvax in Sarah Jane ' s driveway , and sent Haresh over to check it out . She called Ocean Waters to tell her about the sighting , and arrived at Sarah Jane ' s house with Melvin and her to detect aliens . She was later used as a host body for Androvax to reach the Vault . Rani convinced him to leave Gita ' s body and Gita witnessed Mister Dread transmat the Veil ship into space , saving Earth . Gita was going to tell everyone until Dread , under Sarah Jane ' s instruction , wiped her mind of all of her alien encounters . Sarah Jane and the others convinced her that they went on a picnic so she did not recognise Ocean and Melvin . ( TV : " The Vault of Secrets " ) When Haresh believed that Sarah Jane was grieving and denying the Doctor ' s death , he asked Rani if she remembered when her grandfather died . Rani said the Gita had washed everything in her house , even walls . ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " ) When most people were removed from Earth , Gita also disappeared . ( TV : " The Empty Planet " ) Gita was with Haresh when Luke caused Mr White ' s hologram meteor to be seen by everyone on Earth , which defeated Ruby White . ( TV : " Goodbye , Sarah Jane Smith " ) In 2011 , when a baby was delivered to Sarah Jane by the Shopkeeper , Gita assumed that Sarah Jane had begun fostering . She brought flowers for the child , named Sky , surprised to see that she was now a preteen . Sarah Jane made a cover story . ( TV : " Sky " ) Gita opened a second Bloomin ' Lovely store at the White Cross shopping mall . On the opening day she was kidnapped by the Veritas who found out that the memories of the aliens she had met were erased . They showed Gita ' s experiences and feelings to Rani and Sarah Jane . They felt exactly the same as Gita has felt when she had seen the aliens . Rani and Sarah Jane found out that Gita was frightened and feared about her daughter when she first saw Androvax . Sarah Jane and Rani had to rethink their decision about deleting Gita ' s memories of the alien meetings . They came to the conclusion that it was the right decision and that they only did it to protect Gita . Later Gita , Rani and Sarah Jane returned to the mall . Gita did not remember that she had been kidnapped . ( AUDIO : " Judgement Day " ) Eventually , she became a grandmother to Rani ' s son , Shuresh , and a great - grandmother to Shuresh ' s children . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) Personality . Gita was a friendly person who was always kind to people , inviting her daughter ' s friends for dinner . She called everyone she talked to " my darling " , even Mister Dread . Like Chrissie Jackson , Gita also seemed to have problems getting Sarah Jane ' s name right , often referring to her simply as " Sarah " . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " et al ) She was very nosey ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) and bossed her husband around . ( TV : " Prisoner of the Judoon " ) She cared deeply for Rani and even knew that Rani , Clyde and Sarah Jane shared a secret . She was fond of Sarah Jane and commented on how she was a perfect mother to Luke . ( TV : " Goodbye , Sarah Jane Smith " , " Sky " ) Unlike her husband , she got on well with Clyde and she was also more open minded and reckless than Haresh , a trait visible after her first alien encounter . ( TV : " Prisoner of the Judoon " , " The Vault of Secrets " ) Rani worried about disappointing her parents . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " )