Indian student goes missing in Chicago, family seeks govt help

In another case of a student from Telangana going missing in the US, a 26-year-old has not been seen in Chicago since he stepped out of home there on May 2, India’s mission in the US city said Thursday.
Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi, pursuing Masters in business analytics from Concordia University, Wisconsin, had joined the varsity earlier this year. Rupesh’s father Ch Sadanandam said he had last spoken to him on WhatsApp on May 2 afternoon.”He had said he was busy with some work. Later, I could not contact him and he has since been offline,” he said.
The family said they had spoken to Rupesh’s roommates and they recalled Rupesh going out to meet someone who had come from Texas. The family has sought help from Union minister and Telangana MP G Kishan Reddy who, in turn, wrote to the ministry of external affairs on Wednesday seeking assistance of the Indian consulate in Chicago to help find Rupesh. The consulate said Thursday it was in touch with police and Indian diaspora “hoping to locate/establish contact with Rupesh”.
Earlier, 25-year-old Mohammad Abdul Arfath from Hyderabad went missing in March and was found dead in a lake in the US city of Cleveland in April. He was pursuing Masters in IT from Cleveland University.