{"id":179937,"date":"2026-02-16T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:04:31","slug":"karnataka-student-saketh-sreenivasaiah-disappears-in-us-indian-consulate-in-san-francisco-raises-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179937\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka student Saketh Sreenivasaiah ‘disappears’ in US , Indian Consulate in San Francisco raises concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Consulate General of India in San Francisco expressed “deep concern” over the disappearance of a student from Karnataka studying in the US. The Indian post-graduate student, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, went missing in California on 9 February.<\/p>\n

The Consulate General of India<\/a> in San Francisco confirmed the news in a post on X. It said, \u201cConsulate General of India in San Francisco is deeply concerned about the disappearance of Saketh Sreenivasaiah, an Indian post-graduate student of UC Berkeley, hailing from the State of Karnataka.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consulate is in touch with the family and also is in contact with the concerned local authorities to locate the student,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

Who is Saketh Sreenivasaiah?<\/p>\n

Saketh Sreenivasaiah, 22, was pursuing his Master of Science in Product Development Programme from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m a Masters student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at UC Berkeley, with an undergraduate degree from IIT Madras.<\/a> I’m passionate about deep-tech innovations in soft and active materials, semiconductors, and advanced materials,\u201d Sreenivasaiah wrote on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

He was an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Madras<\/a>. At IIT Madras, he pursued a Bachelor of Technology in chemical engineering.<\/p>\n

What we know about Karnataka student’s missing case so far<\/p>\n

According to NDTV, authorities said Sreenivasaiah was last seen around a kilometre away from the campus.<\/p>\n

Local news outlet SFGate cited the Berkeley Police Department as saying that Sreenivasaiah was spotted in the 1700 block of Dwight Way on 10 February.<\/p>\n

Later, a backpack containing Sreenivasaiah’s passport and a laptop was found near a residence close to Tilden Regional Park, also near the campus, the report added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police reportedly described Sreenivasaiah as 6 feet 1 inch tall with short, black hair and brown eyes. They said he is considered at risk and asked people with any leads or information about him to come forward.<\/p>\n

Following this, a citywide search was launched, with a focus on Lake Anza and the surrounding Berkeley Hills areas.<\/p>\n

Community members and classmates also mobilised online to aid in the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Consulate General of India in San Francisco expressed “deep concern” over the disappearance of a student from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[85409,7,8,85407,84883,85413,85414,85127,85408,84881,18567,84842,85412,101,103,102,104,106,105,149,85410,85411],"class_list":{"0":"post-179937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-berkeley-hills-search","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-community-search","12":"tag-consulate-general-of-india","13":"tag-indian-consulate-in-san-francisco","14":"tag-indian-post-graduate-student","15":"tag-indian-student","16":"tag-indian-student-missing","17":"tag-lake-anza","18":"tag-missing-student","19":"tag-saketh-sreenivasaiah","20":"tag-saketh-sreenivasaiah-missing","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","23":"tag-san-francisco-news","24":"tag-sf","25":"tag-sf-headlines","26":"tag-sf-news","27":"tag-uc-berkeley","28":"tag-uc-berkeley-student","29":"tag-who-is-saketh-sreenivasaiah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}