- Monday, February 24, 2025
The family of Shaik Muzammil Ahmed, who was pursuing a master’s degree in information technology from Ontario’s Conestoga College, sought foreign minister S Jaishankar’s help to bring the remains back.
By: Shubham Ghosh
AN Indian student in Canada has died of cardiac arrest and his family has requested the country’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar to help in bringing his moral remains home.
The student, identified as Shaik Muzammil Ahmed, was from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and was pursuing a master’s degree in information technology from Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus, in Kitchener City in Ontario.
Amjad Ullah Khan, a leader of Majlis Bachao Tehreek, a political party based in the state of Telangana of which Hyderabad is the capital, informed about the incident on social media.
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.@DrSJaishankar Sir, One Shaik Muzammil Ahmed-25 years from Hyderabad, Telangana State persuing Masters in IT from Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus in Kitchener City in Ontario, Canada since Dec 2022 was suffering from fever since last one week, but his family received a call… pic.twitter.com/hvA1munXaX
— Amjed Ullah Khan MBT (@amjedmbt) February 15, 2024
He said Ahmed had fever since last week and his family received a call from his friend that he died of cardiac arrest.
Khan also posted the letter that Ahmed’s grief-stricken family wrote to Jaishankar for help by asking the Indian high commission in Ottawa and the Indian consulate general in Toronto to send the deceased student’s mortal remains back to India.
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“One Shaik Muzammil Ahmed-25 years from Hyderabad, Telangana State pursuing Masters in IT from Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus in Kitchener City in Ontario, Canada since Dec 2022 was suffering from fever since last one week, but his family received a call from his friend that he died due to cardiac arrest today,” he said on social media platform X.
“On hearing this news his parents and the entire family is in a state of shock and has request you to kindly ask @HCI_Ottawa & @TorontoCGI to send his mortal remains back to Hyderabad as soon as possible, for more details please contact Waliuddin on +1 (647) (786) 5940 or his uncle Mohammed Amjad on 9618160740,” he added.
Khan has raised concerns of Indian students or their families who have found themselves in distress in the US or Canada due to reasons such as death, physical assault or disorientation.
A few days ago, the political leader had also highlighted the case where another Indian student Syed Mazahir Ali was brutally attacked in Chicago. Videos on social media showed Ali bleeding heavily as he described the horrific incident.
Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi from Hyd went to persue MS from TRINE University, Detroit was found in a very bad condition in Chicago, her mother appealed @DrSJaishankar to bring back her daughter.@HelplinePBSK @IndiainChicago @IndianEmbassyUS @sushilrTOI @meaMADAD pic.twitter.com/GIhJGaBA7a
— Amjed Ullah Khan MBT (@amjedmbt) July 25, 2023
The Indian Consulate in Chicago had then assured of being in touch with the victim’s wife in India and also assured of all possible assistance.
In July last year, Khan brought to public attention the case of a 37-year-old woman from Hyderabad who went to the US to study master’s but was found disoriented and in dishevelled condition after she reportedly lost her belongings and was starving on the streets. Her mother had also sought help from the Indian foreign minister and the consulate general of Chicago to help her return home.
