An Indian student Mahesh Subramaniam was found dead in his apartment in Kentucky in the US nearly 18 days ago.

Mahesh was a science student at the North Kentucky University and his parents, who received his body only on Thursday, are inconsolable.

“As an only son we not only lost a son but we lost everything,” his mother Sharvathy Subramaniam says.

The death of 20-year-old Mahesh is yet another incident that has raised questions about the safety of Indian students in America.

On January 18, 2008, 29-year-old Abhijeet Mahato of Jharkhand, who was a PhD student at North Carolina’s Dukes Pratt School of Engineering, was shot dead at an off-campus apartment complex.

On December 13, 2007, two Louisiana State University research students from Andhra Pradesh, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, were shot dead in a flat near their campus.

In Mahesh’s case preliminary autopsy reports haven’t been able to establish the cause of his death.

His family has been asked to wait for six weeks for the final report and they say the US authorities are yet to contact them.

But they do have a request for the authorities.

“In future this should not happen to other students. I request both governments to take more precautionary measures for international students,” Sharvathy pleads.

And the family waits for a word on what exactly led to this tragedy before they can file a police complaint. Source: IBNLive.com

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