Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, a resident of Hyderabad who went to the US to pursue Master’s degree in Information Science from TRINE University, Detroit in August 2021 was found in a pathetic condition on the roads of Chicago. She is in this condition of emaciation and depression as her belongings have reportedly been stolen. Khaleequr Rahman BRS leader tweeted a video of the woman along with the letter that woman’s mother Syeda Whaj Fatima has written to EAM Dr. S Jaishankar, appealing him to intervene and help in getting her daughter back to India. He captioned his post, “Ms.Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi from Hyd went to pursue MS from TRINE University, Detroit was found in a very bad condition in Chicago, IL. Her mother has appealed @DrSJaishankar to bring back her daughter. Would appreciate the immediate help.”
In the video shot by the person behind the camera, who can be seen offering her food and trying to help her, Minhaj appears emaciated and initially has difficulty recollecting her name, although she remembers it afterwards.
Once the video reached her and armed with information, Minhaj's mother approached Amjadullah Khan, spokesperson of Majlis Bachao Tahreek and former GHMC corporator, who helped her with contacts at the embassy and finally located her daughter.
"Right now, she's being treated in a hospital as she is extremely weak because she hasn't eaten well in the last two months. Arrangements to bring her back home will begin once she recuperates," Fatima told Deccan Chronicle.
In her letter to EAM, narrating her daughter’s ordeal, Minhaj’s mother stated that, “My daughter Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, a resident of Maula Ali in Telangana, went to pursue her Masters at TRINE University in Detroit during August 2021 and was often in touch with us. But, for the past two months, she has not been in touch with me and recently we came to know through two Hyderabad youths that my daughter is in depression and someone stole her belongings, which left her to starvation. My daughter was spotted on the roads of Chicago in the USA.”
She requested EAM to kindly ask the Embassy of India in Washington and the Indian Consulate in Chicago to immediately intervene and bring back her daughter as soon as possible to India. In the letter, she also shared the contact details of one Mohammed Minhaj Akhter, a social activist based out of Chicago to help in tracing her daughter. She further requested EAM to be apprised of the necessary action taken to trace her daughter and to help her come back to India.
