A+ A- Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s techie Prashanth Vaindam a captive in Pakistan’s jail had gone missing 31 months ago in Hyderabad. Techie Prashanth was arrested in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur region from Cholistan Desert, adjoining Rajasthan’s Thar Desert after he was found on the lands with no legal documents. The family members of Prashanth Vaindam are finally happy and relieved to see him alive now as there was no news of him for the past 2 years. Prashanth is a lovelorn wanderer and not a spy says his family. The family is now hoping to meet their missing son with the help from Ministry of external affairs. Another man caught along with Prashanth is a man from Madhya Pradesh who is also a computer engineer who has completed his graduation from Visakhapatnam in 2010 and later worked for Chinese MNC, Huawei Technologies India, in Bengaluru. This engineering graduate then joined another software firm, Shore Info Tech in Hyderabad in 2016 and also visited Hong Kong and Ivory Coast during his work. Prashanth’s father Babu Rao Vaindam, said: “My son left for office on April 11, 2017 at 9am, and never returned.” Based on a complaint lodged by Babu Rao, Madhapur police registered a missing case on April 29, 2017. “After Prashanth went missing, we have not heard from him. We contacted his friends, colleagues and relatives. We have been in contact with the police, but they did not have any information about his whereabouts. After a gap of over 31 months, yesterday, we saw on TV channels that he was caught in Pakistan. We also saw the video of him talking in Telugu saying that he was arrested in Pakistan. Now, we know he is alive in Pakistan. We will contact the police and ministry of external affairs to get our son back,” Babu Rao said. “He turned his cellphone off and deactivated all social media accounts before disappearing. He has not contacted anyone since. So, our team could locate him despite looking at his phone call details,” said Cyberabad commission, VC Sajjanar. Prashanth’s family said all the rumours of him being an Indian spy are baseless. “My son is a soft-natured gentleman,” the father said, “He is not a spy, and he was not involved in any illegal activities. I do not know exactly how he ended up in Pakistan. I have seen in news reports that he was in love with some girl in Switzerland, and went looking for her. He had mentioned to us about a woman colleague whom he liked.”

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