Vijayawada: MS student from Chittoor district has been missing since a week at Fullerton city in California. 23-year-old graduate student Praveen Galla’s US friends, relatives and the police are in search of him. Friends informed police that Praveen was depressed about his academic issues.
San Francisco has asked Fullerton University Police and local authorities to activate their efforts to trace Praveen after the student’s friend M. Kore and others sent in requests to external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj for help.
Praveen went missing since the evening of February 1, Tuesday, after taking a taxi ride. The Fullerton Police issued a look out notice. “It is not like Galla to not return home and that he has been depressed lately,” the notice released by police said. He checked in at the Newport Beach according to notification received via mobile phone, police stated.
