NEW YORK: Another Indian (Telugu) student has been found “murdered” in the US but it is not known if the murder was a case of hate crime. Officers in Belton, Texas, said it appears there was no foul play and they called the death accidental.
Adarsh John, a student of University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB), was “murdered” by unidentified people on Saturday, his relatives in Hyderabad told reporters and Indian officials.
Adarsh Johnson Don Basco, 22, was found dead Saturday at a pond near College Street on the UMHB campus, local news reports said.
Adarsh is the latest victim in a series of incidents involving students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh, whose capital is Hyderabad.
In March, 28-year-old Prashanth Goinaka was shot dead by unidentified robbers at a convenience store in Oklahoma. He was studying MBA in International Technological University at California and had taken up a part-time job.
Rudraraju Sudheer Kumar, a mechanical engineer, was found murdered in his flat in Atlanta in February last year. Akshay Vishal, 26, a software engineer from Hyderabad, was shot dead by unidentified people in Little Rock in Arkansas on Jan 13.
As many as 11 Telugu students and techies were murdered in the US during last three years.
Adarsh, who was pursuing Masters of Science Degree in Information Systems at UMHB, was found murdered Saturday, according to information received by his family Sunday at Tandur in Ranga Reddy district, about 100 km from Hyderabad in India.
Adarsh, who was scheduled to graduate in August, was recently honored as the outstanding graduate student in the information system program for 2010.
His body was taken to Dallas for an autopsy.
India’s Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy on Sunday visited Adarsh’s house in Tandur to offer condolences and consoled his parents.
The minister spoke to officials regarding the arrangements to bring home the body.
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