Chandigarh; A 23-year-old missing student was found dead in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Haryana state of India.

According to Global Mirror, the student from southeast Delhi, Muhammad Faiyz, who had been missing for nearly two weeks, was found dead at a canal in Palwal district of the state.

The circumstances, surrounding his disappearance and death, continue to raise serious questions, with his family suspecting foul play.

Faiyz, a resident of Madanpur Khadar near Okhla and a student at Jamia Hamdard, left home on March 7 in the holy month of Ramadan without informing his family and disappeared.