Harsha Maddula Missing: Search continues for missing Northwestern student

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

Harsha Maddula

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(CBS) EVANSTON, Ill. - A desperate search is underway for Harsha Maddula, a missing Northwestern University student, who was last seen around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday after he left a party, CBS Chicago reports.

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Maddula, a sophomore at the McCormick School of Engineering, was at the party with a group of about 10 friends. Some of them left to possibly go to another party but Maddula disappeared.

No one has heard from him since.

Sources who saw Maddula at the party told the Daily Northwestern that he was not obviously intoxicated or stumbling and that he was coherent.

Maddula's family, who flew to Chicago from Long Island to search for their missing son, said that they are frustrated with the lack of help from authorities.

"We need help. We have no response from the dean. We have no response from the school. Nobody is approaching us. Nobody is taking our phone calls. We went to the police. We approached the FBI. The FBI is refusing to join in the investigating," Maddula's father, Prasad, said.

Maddula's mother sobbed as she spoke to reporters, saying that her son was also diabetic, and pleading for people to come forward if they had any information.

"It has been three days that the kid is missing. Please, the case has to be escalated. We want all the students to come out of their dorms and search for this kid. He's your brother. He's missing in the campus," Prasad Maddula said.

According to CBS Chicago, Maddula is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 149 pounds, and of Indian descent. He was last seen wearing a grey long-sleeved sweater with black and white stitching, dark grey pants and brown shoes.

Anyone with information on where Maddula might be is asked to call Northwestern University Police, at (847) 491-3254.