Telangana student missing in Chicago, kin seeks Centre's help to trace him

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: May 10, 2024, 07:12 IST

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Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi, 26, pursuing Masters in business analytics at Concordia University, Wisconsin, missing in Chicago. Family contacted US embassy. Indian consulate, G Kishan Reddy involved. Police seek info. Similar case of Mohammad Abdul Arfath in Cleveland University.

Telangana student missing in Chicago, kin seeks Centre's help to trace him

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HYDERABAD: In another case of a student from Telangana going missing in the US, a 26-year-old from Hanumakonda has not been seen in Chicago since he stepped out of home there on May 2, India's mission in the US city said on 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," Sadanandam said from Hanumakonda.
The family said they had spoken to Rupesh's roommates and they recalled Rupesh going out to meet someone who had come from Texas. "He went to meet somebody but we do not know who," Rupesh's father said, adding they had contacted the US embassy.

The family has sought help from Union minister 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 on Thursday it was in touch with police and the Indian diaspora "hoping to locate/establish contact with Rupesh".
The mission added that Rupesh had been incommunicado since leaving home on May 2 at Chicago's 4300 block of N Sheridan Road.

Chicago police have put out a notice urging the public to provide information about Rupesh.
Earlier, 25-year-old Mohammad Abdul Arfath, hailing from Nacharam in Hyderabad, went missing in March and was found dead in a lake in the US city of Cleveland in April.
He had arrived last year to pursue Masters in IT from Cleveland University.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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