India, Feb. 15 -- Saketh Sreenivasaiah, the 22-year-old Indian student who went missing in the United States on February 9, has been found dead by the local police. Sreenivasaiah's body was pulled from Lake Anza in California on Saturday afternoon (local time).

Sreenivasaiah was a post-graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. His roommate Baneet Singh said in a LinkedIn post that Sreenivasaiah died by suicide. (Also read: Indian student Saketh Sreenivasaiah, missing since February 9, found dead in US)

Singh said that in the weeks leading up to his disappearance, Sreenivasaiah had been eating less and acting more and more indifferent.

"My Berkeley roommate, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, has been found dead by suicide in lake ...