Kerala Student Goes Missing From Chennai Hostel, Father Fears 'Conversion And Marriage'

The cases of assault and death of female students living in hostels have recently been the talk of the town. After the concerning cases of Mumbai hostel student's rape and murder and the suicide of a female student in Kerala college hostel, another case has been reported from a women's hostel in Chennai.

The ignorance of hostel authorities has given way to some really disturbing incidents. Recently, a female student went missing from a hostel in Chennai after she lied to the hostel authorities about going to her cousin's house. The case is currently in Kerala High Court after her father filed a plea. It is suspected to be a case of abduction in an interfaith relationship. Here's everything you should know about the case.

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Kerala Woman Missing From Chennai Hostel

1. 22-year-old Benita Grace Varghese studied audio and speech-language at SRM College in Chennai and lived in the hostel provided by the college.
2. She reportedly made two-three calls every day at home and had regular conversations with her family. Her father, Varghese Abraham, said that the last conversation they had with her was on June 8 at 7:45 pm.
3. The family tried to contact her after that but she was not responding. They called hostel authorities to ask about her who told them that she left the hostel on June 8 itself.
4. She reportedly told the hostel authorities that she was going to her cousin's home. On June 9, her father received a voice note from her at around 9:37 pm.
5. In the voice note, the girl told her father that was going with a person that he did not know. It was found that the contact number from which the voice note was sent belonged to a man named Fahad.
6. The father recognised this person as a Muslim man his daughter befriended when she was in Kuwait before moving to Chennai for higher studies.
7. Fahad lived as an NRI in Kuwait where he met Benita Grace Varghese and the two became close friends. The family does not know much about him except that he is a resident of Mattannur in Kannur.
8. The girl's father filed a complaint in Kerala High Court and claimed that Fahad had taken his daughter to Mattannur without her will.
9. He also mentioned in the complaint that he fears she will be converted to Islam and will forcefully be married to him.