In August 2021, Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, from Hyderabad in Telangana State, India, had gone to the US to pursue higher studies, MS from TRINE University, Detroit.
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In August 2021, Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, from Hyderabad in Telangana State, India, had come to the US to pursue higher studies, MS from TRINE University, Detroit.
In response to an appeal by Syeda’s mother, the Consulate General of India in Chicago has issued a statement that “all assistance will be provided and efforts are on to locate her”
Later in an update, the consulate’s issued another statement saying that “The Consulate is aware of the case of Syeda Lulu Minaj Zaidi. With the help of local police and NGOs, the Consulate is trying to locate her. The Consulate will extend all possible Consular, medical, or other support she might need,” the Consulate General of India in Chicago told PTI.
The woman, who hails from Hyderabad had come to the US to pursue higher studies , was seen on a street in Chicago on the verge of starvation. Her mother has written a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar seeking his help to bring her back home.
The mother’s letter posted on the Twitter page of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Khaleequr Rahman,, sought the External Affairs Minister’s help to bring her daughter back to India.
In her letter, she said: “For the last two months she was not in touch with me and recently through two Hyderabadi youths, we came to know that my daughter’s entire belongings have been stolen due to which she is in deep depression, on the verge of starvation and was spotted on the roads of Chicago, USA,”
Meanwhile, Rahman in an update on his Twitter page said he had been able to contact a social worker in Chicago, Mukarram. The social worker and his family met Syeda, currently undergoing treatment in a hospital.
The mother’s letter posted on the Twitter page of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Khaleequr Rahman, sought the External Affairs Minister’s help to bring her daughter back to India.
The BRS leader said he was informed that Syeda was depressed and in a mentally unstable condition as her financial condition had gone from bad to worse because she was unable to find a job (in the US).
“She needs to get out of the depression in order to travel back to India”, Rahman said quoting Mukarram.
He (Rahman) said he would request Mr. Jaishankar to help Zaidi’s mother to travel to the US so that she could be with her daughter at this critical time and eventually bring her back to India..
(Rewrite by David Solomon)
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