HYDERABAD: Mystery shrouds the disappearance of a 28-year-old student from Hyderabad in
Australia
. It has been 10 days since
Mohammed Mohsin Ali Maaz
spoke to his parents who reside in Chanchalguda after which his whereabouts are not known. “Police have checked hospitals and accidents reports too in a bid to trace him. From this, we would like to assume that he is safe somewhere,” Maaz’s father
Mohammed Ali told STOI on Saturday.
Victoria police have put out his photograph and details urging the public to provide information about him.
Maaz
had gone to Australia in August 2018 and joined a university in Melbourne to pursue a master’s course. His family got in touch with his friends but they were told that Maaz had vacated from the place where he was staying. Mohammed Abdul Aziz, a relative who lives in Australia, met social worker and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan who has written to external affairs minister
S Jaishkankar
and the Indian High Commission in Canberra seeking help.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil 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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