Hyderabad woman Syed Lulu Minhaj starving in US, mother seeks external affairs minister’s help

A heartrending visual of a Hyderabad woman who went to the USA to study at the TRINE University in Chicago, Illinois, and was found homeless and starving on the streets of Chicago city

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Update:2023-07-26 13:04 IST
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HYDERABAD: A heartrending visual of a Hyderabad woman who went to the USA to study at the TRINE University in Chicago, Illinois, and was found homeless and starving on the streets of Chicago city by a fellow Indian.

In fact, the studious Syed Lulu Minhaj enrolled in the said university in 2021 but suddenly became incommunicado for the past two months. Her mother Syeda Wahaj Fatima, in her letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, said that her daughter was fighting depression and was starving, living on the streets in Chicago. She requested the Union Government to help bring her daughter back to Hyderabad with the help of Indian Consulate in Chicago.

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The video showing Syed Lulu Minhaj talking to someone in Urdu said that she was willing to return home. The person apparently offered her water and some food material to save her from starvation.

The letter written by her mother to the Union Minister was shared on Twitter by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Khaleequr Rahaman. In her letter, Syeda Wahaj Fatima a resident of Moulaali in Hyderabad explained the ordeal faced by her daughter and said that her daughter went to the US to pursue higher studies in August 2021 and was always in touch with her.

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“But, for the past two months, she has not been in touch with me and recently we came to know through two Hyderabad youths that my daughter is in depression and someone stole her belongings, which left her to starvation. My daughter was spotted on the roads of Chicago in the USA,” she wrote.

Requesting the Embassy of India in Washington DC and the Indian Consulate in Chicago to bring her daughter back, she shared details of one Mohammed Minhaj Akhter who she said would help locating her daughter in Chicago.

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