Chennai: A second-year student of MS engineering design in IIT-Madras went missing from her hostel on Sunday leaving behind a note that she is headed to the Himalayas in a pursuit of spiritual life.
Vedantam L Prathyusha, 26, left behind two notes in her room that she was leaving for the Himalayas as she aspired to become a saint.
As per the institute she left early last Sunday. She had filled in the permission register before leaving the hostel, in which she had mentioned that she would return on January 20.
However, after she failed to reach her home in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, her parents contacted the IIT administration.
The police has since filed an FIR in the case.
