Why lacking Indian scholar Sudiksha Konanki’s dad and mom need her declared lifeless?

The dad and mom of lacking 20-year-old Indian scholar Sudiksha Konanki have requested the police within the Dominican Republic to declare her lifeless, PTI quoted US media stories.

Konanki went lacking whereas on trip within the Dominican Republic. She was final seen on March 6 on the Riu Republic Resort in Punta Cana city.

The US federal regulation enforcement companies are working with authorities within the Dominican Republic within the probe into her disappearance.

Diego Pesqueira, spokesperson of the Dominican Republic Nationwide Police, mentioned that the Indian scholar’s household despatched the company a letter requesting a declaration of dying.

In response to a New York Publish report, Konanki’s household in a letter mentioned there isn’t a foul play concerned in her presumed dying after she vanished froma Punta Cana seaside within the early hours of March 6, ABC Information reported.

The daddy and mom additionally wrote they belief the authorities’ probe into the case and famous Joshua Riibe, the final individual to see the younger lady alive, has cooperated with investigators.

Konanki’s dad and mom in the identical letter mentioned that they perceive that sure authorized procedures should be adopted for his or her request, however that they’re ready to adjust to any obligatory formalities or documentation, ABC Information quoted the sources in a report.

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Konanki, described by her father as an “bold” scholar who deliberate to check drugs, arrived in Punta Cana on March 3. She travelled with 5 different feminine college students from the College of Pittsburgh, based on the Loudon County Sheriff’s Workplace.

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Passport of the person final seen with Sudiksha confiscated

In response to a CNN Information report, authorities within the Dominican Republic confiscated the passport of Joshua Steven Riibe, the final individual identified to have been with Konanki.

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Dominican Republic Legal professional Common Yeni Berenice Reynoso interviewed Riibe, over the weekend for greater than six hours and the questioning is predicted to proceed with a neighborhood prosecutor.

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Riibe isn’t thought-about a suspect within the case and has not been accused of wrongdoing.

It’s unclear why Riibe’s passport was confiscated. Since Konanki went lacking within the early hours of March 6, Riibe, a 22-year-old from Rock Rapids, Iowa, and a senior at St. Cloud State College in Minnesota, has remained underneath police surveillance within the Dominican Republic.

He has been taken to the police station for interrogation a number of occasions, his dad and mom mentioned in a press release.

(With PTI inputs)