An Indian scholar within the US state of Ohio has died and police are investigating the case, India’s Consulate in New York mentioned on Friday, the newest in a string of tragedies to shock the group within the nation.
“Deeply saddened by the unlucky demise of Mr Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian scholar in Cleveland, Ohio,” the Consulate Normal of India in New York mentioned in a submit on X.
The Consulate mentioned {that a} police investigation into the loss of life is underway, and it continues to stay in contact with the household in India.
“All attainable help is being prolonged, together with to move Mr Uma Gadde’s mortal stays to India on the earliest,” the consulate mentioned.
Deeply saddened by the unlucky demise of Mr. Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian scholar in Cleveland, Ohio.
Police investigation is underway. @IndiainNewYork continues to stay in contact with the household in India.
All attainable help is being prolonged together with to move…
— India in New York (@IndiainNewYork) April 5, 2024
For the reason that starting of 2024, there have been at the very least half a dozen deaths of Indian and Indian-origin college students within the US. The alarming rise within the variety of assaults has prompted concern among the many group.
Final month, a 34-year-old educated classical dancer from India, Amarnath Ghosh, was shot lifeless in St Louis, Missouri.
Sameer Kamath, a 23-year-old Indian-American scholar at Purdue College, was discovered lifeless in a nature protect in Indiana on February 5.
On February 2, Vivek Taneja, a 41-year-old Indian-origin IT govt, suffered life-threatening accidents throughout an assault outdoors a restaurant in Washington, making it the seventh loss of life of an Indian or Indian-American in current months within the US.
The collection of assaults on Indians and Indian origin individuals/college students had prompted the officers of the Indian Embassy in Washington and its consulates at varied locations to carry a digital interplay with Indian college students from throughout the US, discussing varied elements of scholar well-being and methods to remain related with the bigger diaspora.
About 150 Indian Scholar Affiliation workplace bearers and college students from 90 US universities participated within the interplay led by Cost d’Affaires Ambassador Sripriya Ranganathan.
It was additionally attended by the Consul Generals of India in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
