A 25-year old man Indian man has been reported missing since Tuesday, August 29, when he failed to return back home in Ellerslie, Auckland.
He was last seen at Mission Bay - a seaside suburb of Auckland City, around 11:30 a.m. on the same day.
Ramireddy Malapati was living with his friends in Ellerslie and had gone to Mission Bay with his roommate who dropped him near Mövenpick ice cream parlour.
As per Mr Malapati’s roommate Srikanth Subireddy, Mr Malapati travelled to Mission Bay almost twice a week to meet his friend or his lawyer.
“He would say that he is going to meet his lawyer and sometimes his friend and my roommate Gopinath would drop him there,” Mr Srikanth told The Indian Weekender.
Mr Srikanth added that usually, he would go in the afternoon and return by 10 or 11 p.m. in the night, but he failed to return home on Tuesday, August 29.
“He asked me to drop him at Mission Bay as he wanted to meet his lawyer and I did, hoping that he would return on his own at his usual time, but he didn’t,” Mr Bandi Gopinath told The Indian Weekender.
When Mr Malapati did not return, his roommates called him on his number, texted him on phone, Whatsapp and Facebook but got no response. They assumed he would have stayed at some of his friends’ place that night.
Mr Srikanth then contacted his family in Hyderabad on Thursday hoping he would have called there, but he hadn’t. Mr Srikanth then contacted Mr Malapati’s employer in Mt Wellington who confirmed that Mr Malapati did not come work for the last two months.
On Friday, September 1, Mr Srikanth and his other roommates then lodged a missing person complaint with the Auckland Police
The Auckland City District Police had earlier on Monday, September 4 appealed to the public through its Facebook post to help police provide any information on the whereabouts of 25-year old Ramireddy Malapati.
The Indian Weekender has requested the police for any updates on Mr Malapati and is awaiting a response.
As per Mr Malapati’s other roommate Bandi Gopinath, Mr Malapati started living with them since August this year and said he was working with a private company in Mt Wellington.
Mr Malapati came to New Zealand in December 2014 on a student visa to study IT and was classmates with both Bandi Gopinath and Srikanth Subiredy at Ntec, a tertiary education provider in Auckland CBD.
The visa status of Mr Malapati is not known to his roommates.
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