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Student missing after night out in Auckland

Author
NZME news service,
Publish Date
Mon, 12 Oct 2015, 3:20PM
Mandeep Singh (supplied)
Mandeep Singh (supplied)

Student missing after night out in Auckland

Author
NZME news service,
Publish Date
Mon, 12 Oct 2015, 3:20PM

A 20-year-old Indian student has gone missing in Auckland after a night out clubbing in the early hours of yesterday.

Mandeep Singh, aged 20, and three flatmates left their Queen St apartment at 12.30am to go to the Bungalow8 club in Viaduct Harbour.

His friends lost contact with him at about 3.20am. He did not turn up to his work at Cafe Melba at 7am yesterday or to his culinary arts course at the Cornell Institute of Business and Technology today.

The last person to see him, Gurjeed Singh, said he and Mandeep, known as Mandy, 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 Singh said.

"I was dancing and enjoying myself. After 20 or 25 minutes I looked for him and he was not there."

Ramandeeb Bajwa, whose wife Sweety is Mandeep Singh's cousin, said Mandeep answered a call on his mobile phone from another friend at 3.20am. His best friend Jatin Kalia, 19, said Mandeep told the friend that he was at home.

"The background was all quiet when he called, it wasn't noisy like the club, so we think he must have been outside the club and roaming the streets," Mr Kalia said.

Sweety Bajwa said that when the other flatmates got home Mandeep Singh was not there and they did not believe he had been home because he did not have the access card.

Mr Kalia said: "Mandeep told a lie, and after that he didn't pick up his phone. It rang and rang, and now it's just on voicemail."

"It's really unusual," he said. "He is a guy who tells everything, where he is, everything."

Mr Bajwa said Mandeep's parents from India were also concerned because they had not been able to contact their son. Mandeep arrived in Auckland on a student visa in February.

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