Chennai: A 26-year-old student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) hailing from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, has vanished from the institute leaving a goodbye note saying she was leaving to learn about higher facts of life and that she was taking a pilgrimage to Himalayas for the same.
Sources said Vedantam.L. Prathyusha, pursuing second year MS engineering design, went missing from January 17.
A bi-lingual goodbye note, written by her was found from her room. The letter written in English and Tamil suggested that she was leaving the institute with the intention of attaining sainthood and she would be under the protection of god and never to be found again by her kith and kin.
She was earlier with Sharavati hostel and then in Sabarmati hostel. “An eversmiling face, she was good and nice to people,” one of the hostel staff said.
Her batchmates described her to be a bubbly girl with no signs of depression.
“She was okay in her studies. We were stumped to hear that she left her studies to attain sainthood,” an IIT student told DC.
IIT-M, in a statement, said it has lodged a complaint on the request of the parents of a girl student who checked out of the hostel during the early hours on January 17 but failed to reach their hometown.
