India, Feb. 16 -- Days after a 22-year-old student from Karnataka went missing in the United States, the Consulate General of India in San Francisco confirmed that local law enforcement had recovered Saketh Sreenivasaiah's body.

However, Saketh's parents, who are in Bengaluru, are struggling to come to terms with the news. They assert that they will only accept their son's death once they have seen his body with their own eyes.

"We will only accept that he is dead if she (Saketh's mother) sees his dead body. Till then, we believe he is alive," stated Saketh's father, Srinivasaiah Thammannagowda, during a visit from Karnataka MLC Arathi Krishna to their residence on Sunday, reported The Indian Express.

Despite the Indian Consulate's ass...