Missing Muslim student found dead in Haryana
Chandigarh; A 23-year-old missing student was found dead in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Haryana state of India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the student from southeast Delhi, Muhammad Faiyz, who had been missing for nearly two weeks, was found dead at a canal in Palwal district of the state.
The circumstances, surrounding his disappearance and death, continue to raise serious questions, with his family suspecting foul play.
Faiyz, a resident of Madanpur Khadar near Okhla and a student at Jamia Hamdard, left home on March 7 in the holy month of Ramadan without informing his family and disappeared.
Concern mounted when he failed to return or make contact. After searching among friends and family, the relatives filed a missing person complaint at Kalindi Kunj police station on March 11.
Family members later revealed that they spoke briefly with Faiyz shortly after he left. In a call on March 8 to his brother-in-law Mohammed Aabid, he said he was travelling and had met four unknown individuals. He reportedly mentioned being promised a job in Vadodara by a man from Haridwar, whom he encountered during a train journey. Suspicious of their intentions, Faiyz got off at Mathura station.
In the distressing conversation, he expressed feeling “trapped” among the group, fearing they were fraudsters, and assured his family he would return to Delhi. This was his last known contact; his phone switched off soon afterward and remained unreachable.
The family said delay in the police investigation, including slow registration of an FIR and limited updates despite phone surveillance. On March 21, Haryana police in Palwal informed them that an unidentified body, recovered from a canal on March 17, had been identified as Faiyz through his mobile phone, Aadhaar card, and clothing. The body, in advanced decomposition, was identified by belongings rather than facial features.
Some family members and locals have linked the case to other recent incidents of missing persons, particularly Muslim youths, found dead in Haryana areas like Faridabad, fueling broader concerns about suspicious deaths in the region. KMS-19R
