According to a US media report, the family of 20 -year -old Indian student Sudi Konanki’s disappearance has asked the police to declare the police dead in the Republic of Dominican.
Ms. Konanki, a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States, was last seen on 6 March at the RIU Republic Resort in Panta Canna Town. She has gone missing during a holiday in the Republic of Dominican and American federal law enforcement agencies are working with officials in the Caribbean country to investigate her disappearance.
Despite a broad discovery, his body is not found.
NBC News said on Tuesday that Diago Peskira, spokesman of Dominican Republic National Police, said that Ms. Konanki’s family had sent a letter to the agency for the announcement of death.
The Konanki family did not immediately respond to the request of the comment on Monday night.
CNN News reported that in the meantime, officials in Dominican Republic have seized the passport of the person who is the last person who is known with Ms. Konanki, according to a source of investigation, CNN News said.
The source said the Dominican Republic Attorney General Yani Berynis Renoso interviewed Joshua Steven Reebe, for more than six hours over the weekend and is expected to continue with a local prosecutor for questioning.
Mr. Reebe is not considered suspicious in the case and is not accused of doing wrong.
It is not clear that Mr. Reebe’s passport was confiscated. Since Ms. Konanki went missing in the early hours of March 6, Rock Rapids at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, Mr. Reebe, a 22 -year -old Iowa, remained under police supervision in the Dominican Republic. He was taken to the police station several times for questioning, his parents said in a statement.
The New York Post reported that the Konanki family sent a formal letter to the officials on Monday, admitting that no suspicious dishonesty involved in Ms. Konanki’s death after the disappearance of Panta Cana Beach in the early hours of March 6 was dishonest.
Sources said that the father and mother have also written that they rely on the investigation of the authorities and look at Mr. Reebe, who has cooperated with the investigators by the last person who saw the woman alive.
In a single letter, the parents of Ms. Konanki said that they understand that some legal procedures should be followed for her request, but that they are ready to follow any necessary formalities or documents, sources were said by ABC News.
Ms. Konanki, a “ambitious” student by her father, described as a student who planned to study the drug, arrived at Panta Cain on 3 March. She traveled with five other female students from the University of Pittsburgh, according to the Loudon County Sheriff Office.
Mr. Reebe said that he first met Ms. Konanki at the hotel when she and her friend introduced themselves to their group. The two friends went together in the group bar, where they drank until “no one suggested that we go to the beach,” Mr. Reebe said in his interview.
In the early hours of March 6, she was seen drinking surveillance footage with five women and two men at the Riu Republic Hotel Bar. In the video, Ms. Konanki is seen wearing a white cover-up because she hugs and talks with her friends. Mr. Reebe is seen several feet away, stumbling on the lawn outside the bar.
Then, at 4:15 am, a surveillance camera captured the group including Ms. Konanki, entering the beach, police said.
Just before 5 in the morning, the surveillance footage showed five women and a man out of the beach, telling CNN about two sources of investigation. Ms. Konanki was not among them.
During his fourth interview with the prosecutors, on Wednesday, Mr. Reebe described a rigorous effort to save Ms. Konanki, as she was surrounded by waves and tired of swimming.
Officials in the Republic of Dominican have said that no one is considered suspicious in Ms. Konanki’s disappearance.
US officials have said that this is a missing person and not a criminal case.
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