23-year-old Indian Student Missing in California: ‘Authorities Appeal for Information’
A 23-year-old Indian student has been missing in the US state of California since last week, and authorities have asked the public for aid in finding her. This is the latest case in the country, as the community deals with a succession of such incidents involving students.
Nitheesha Kandula, a student at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), went missing on May 28, according to authorities.
She was last seen in Los Angeles and reported missing on May 30, according to John Guttierez, Chief of Police at CSUSB, who posted on X on Sunday.’
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“#MissingPersonAlert: California State University, San Bernardino Police along with our partners in #LAPD, is asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of @CSUSBNews Nitheesha Kandula, to contact us at: (909) 537-5165,” according to the police.
Kandhula was characterized in a written statement as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing roughly 160 pounds (72.5 kgs), and having black hair and eyes. According to the statement, she may have been driving a 2021 Toyota Corolla with a California license plate of undetermined color.
Police requested anybody with knowledge about her location to contact authorities, saying, “Anyone with information is urged to contact the CSUSB Police Department at (909) 538-7777, or the LAPD’s Southwest Division at (213) 485-2582.” Last month, Rupesh Chandra Chintakind, a 26-year-old Indian student, went missing in Chicago.
Earlier in April, a 25-year-old Indian student who had been missing since March was discovered dead in Cleveland, USA. Mohammad Abdul Arfath, originally from Nacharam, Hyderabad, moved to the United States in May of last year to pursue a Master in Information Technology at Cleveland University.
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Amarnath Ghosh, a 34-year-old trained classical dancer from India, was fatally murdered in St. Louis, Missouri, in March.
Sameer Kamath, a 23-year-old Indian-American student at Purdue University, was discovered dead at a nature preserve in Indiana on February 5.
On February 2, Vivek Taneja, a 41-year-old Indian-origin IT executive, was seriously injured during an assault outside a Washington restaurant.
In January, Akul Dhawan, an 18-year-old University of Illinois student, was discovered unconscious outside a campus building. Investigations indicated that he died of hypothermia, with authorities determining that acute alcohol consumption and prolonged exposure to extremely cold temperatures had a key role in his death.