Greater Noida: A first-year engineering student of GL Bajaj Institute from Kashmir, Asim Hussaindar (19), has gone missing from his Greater Noida home. Police suspect he disappeared as he was barred by the university from appearing in end semester exams due to low attendance.Asim had left home on Saturday afternoon, telling his roommate that he was going to see his friend near Pari Chowk. “Around 7 pm, I called him and he told me he would be back in half an hour, and then switched off his phone. That night he did not turn up, but the next day I saw him online on a gaming app. I immediately called him on WhatsApp but he did not pick up,” said Iliyas, his room mate.Asim’s parents who reached Greater Noida on Tuesday filed a missing person’s complaint in which they said that he had last talked to his mother to tell her that he was not allowed to sit in the end semester exams due to poor attendance.“My son could not attend classes as last month he was suffering from Dengue and had asked him to come home to get well. We are really worried about him, we seek police’s support in searching him,” said Aashiq Hussaindar, his father.When contacted, Rajeev Aggarwal, director of GL Bajaj Institute, said, “Asim hardly attended college in the past six months, he has only 43% attendance which is very low against the required 75% to sit in exams, not just that he has not given any of the midterm exams. So as per the university norms he was barred from taking the exams. However, he still has a chance to save his year by maintaining good attendance and credits in the next semester.”Vinit Jaiswal, SP (rural) has so far denied any terror angle to the missing student’s case. “Prima facie, it appears that the student disappeared so as not to face embarrassment after being disallowed from taking exams. We are trying to locate him by putting his phone on surveillance,” he added.

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