Unable to believe: Parents of dead Indian student want to visit US, follow probe
India Today
The Indian Consulate in San Francisco confirmed in a social media statement on Sunday that the body of the missing Indian student had been located. Local police had earlier issued alerts seeking public help in tracing him after he was reported missing earlier this month.
A 22-year-old Indian postgraduate student, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, who had been missing since February 9, was found dead on Sunday. Back home in Karnataka, his parents are still struggling to accept his death. They want to travel to California to personally collect his body and follow up on the investigation.
"They are unable to believe that he has really passed away. He had spoken to them a day before he went missing and everything seemed normal and routine. Saketh also never hinted at being under stress or facing any problems," Karnataka MLC Arathi Krishna told PTI after meeting his parents, Sreenivasaiah and Anupama, at their home on Sunday.
Krishna, who is also deputy chairman of the NRI Forum of Karnataka, said the family has no relatives in the US and fears that if the body is repatriated without their presence, the investigation may lose urgency.
"His parents still feel that they want to go there and ensure that a proper investigation is carried out. They somehow believe that everything seemed normal, and they are unable to understand how this could have happened. That is why they want to go in person. They have sought my assistance and I am helping them to secure an emergency visa as soon as possible so that they can travel immediately," she said.
Krishna added that the parents are in denial and want to personally verify the identity of the body recovered by authorities.
"They want to go personally to collect the body and also speak to the university and police authorities to understand the details of the investigation. They have requested that the probe be expedited and taken seriously," she added.
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