Indian student in New Zealand goes missing: report

A 20-year-old Indian student in New Zealand has gone missing after a night out clubbing, according to a media report.
Mandeep Singh, who arrived in Auckland on a student visa went missing after a night out clubbing in the early hours yesterday.
Mandeep and his three flatmates left their Queen St apartment in Auckland at 12.30am. His friends lost contact with him at about 3.20am. He did not turn up to his work at a Cafe or to his culinary arts course at the Cornell Institute of Business and Technology today, The New Zealand Herald reported.
The last person to see him, Gurjeed Singh, said he and Mandeep, stayed at Bungalow8 after their other two flatmates left at about 2am to go to another nightclub.

"He told me to go to the other side and enjoy myself, to go to the dance floor," Gurjeed said.
"I was dancing and enjoying myself. After 20 or 25 minutes I looked for him and he was not there," he said.

Ramandeeb Bajwa, whose wife Sweety is Mandeep's cousin, said Mandeep answered a call on his mobile phone from another friend at 3.20am. His friend Jatin Kalia, 19, said Mandeep told the friend that he was at home.
Mandeep's parents are concerned about their son's missing as they were not able to contact him till now. Mandeep arrived in Auckland on a student visa in February, the daily reported.

Auckland City Police said Mandeep "was wearing a blue collared shirt, blue jeans and black and white shoes and is described as slim build, with brown hair and brown eyes and around 5'8" tall."
"Police would like to hear from anyone who may know of his whereabouts or who may have seen him in the vicinity of Viaduct Harbour in the early hours of Sunday morning," they said.
A spokesman for Cornell Institute of Business and Technology said the institute was cooperating with police and was also trying to find out more information.