Indian mission to fly home Hyd woman seen starving on US streets

Chicago: Consulate General of India in  , United States has extended medical and travel assistance to the Hyderabad woman, who was found starving on the streets days back, and stating that she is "fit".

"Happy that we could contact Syeda Zaidi and offered help, including medical assistance and travel to India. She is fit and has spoken to her mother in India. She is yet to respond to our offer of support to return to India. We stand ready to extend to her all assistance," said the consulate, in a tweet.

Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, who had gone a week before to the United States to pursue a master's degree was found a week ago starving on Chicago's streets. On further investigation, it was found that all her belongings were stolen and that she was depressed.

After the girl was spotted starving, her mother Syeda Wahaj Fatima wrote a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and appealing to him to "immediately interfere" and bring her daughter back "as soon as possible."

"This is to state that my daughter Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi went to pursue her Master's in Information Science from TRINE University, Detroit, USA in Aug 2021... She was in touch with us.

For the last two months, she was not in touch with me and recently, through two Hyderabadi youths we came to know that my daughter is in deep depression and all her belongings had been stolen due to which she is on the verge of starvation and is being seen on the roads of Chicago," read the letter.

"It is requested to kindly ask the Embassy of India, Washington DC, USA, and the Indian Consulate in Chicago, USA to immediately interfere and bring back my daughter as soon as possible to India. Necessary action taken in this regard may be informed," she stated.