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Karnataka Student Saketh Sreenivasaiah, Who Went Missing, Dies — What We Know so Far
Saketh Sreenivasaiah, a 22-year-old Indian postgraduate student at UC Berkeley, was found dead after a six-day search coordinated by local authorities and Indian consular officials.
- On February 15, 2026, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, a 22-year-old Indian postgraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was found dead six days after he went missing in Berkeley, California.
- Reported missing on February 9, he was last seen in the 1700 block of Dwight Way, about a kilometre from the campus.
- Search teams found his backpack containing his passport and laptop on a doorstep in the Park Hills neighbourhood near Tilden Regional Park, while local volunteers and Reddit users helped search Lake Anza with boats and dogs.
- The Consulate General of India in San Francisco said it would support repatriation and that the Ministry of External Affairs outlined measures, including contact with students, in response to MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
- The incident has fuelled wider discussion about Indian student safety abroad, while authorities have not publicly disclosed further details about his death, intensifying interest in his IIT Madras background and status as a co-inventor on a patent for a microchannel cooling system.
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Who Was Saketh Sreenivasaiah, IIT Madras Graduate Found Dead In California
A 22-year-old Indian student, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, was found dead in California six days after he went missing. Saketh, who was pursuing his master's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, had disappeared on February 9.
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