Hyderabad Man Goes Missing From Daughter’s California Wedding

55-year-old Prasad Moparti has been missing in Sacramento, California for three days now.

A 55-year-old Indian man, who was on a visit to the US to attend his daughter’s marriage, went missing after the wedding reception.

Prasad Moparti, from Hyderabad, had been in the US since January and was scheduled to return to India on February 26.

He was attending his daughter Durga Moparti’s wedding at Grand Island Mansion in Walnut Grove in Northern California on Saturday when he walked away about 4 pm and never returned, said Tony Turnbull, spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

I believe that he was just walking and he fell unconscious, and he just tripped or something like that, but I’m really not sure what happened, and this seems like a total mystery. 

Durga Moparti

Turnbull said authorities suspended their search for Moparti as there was no “suspicious circumstances or foul play leading to his disappearance”.

He said Moparti was considered a voluntary missing person but considering his lack of familiarity with the area and history of depression, the department used “all resources available in attempts to locate him”.

On Saturday and Sunday, searchers from the Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol and Coast Guard units meticulously combed the shores as the bride’s family circulated the fliers. On Monday, a CHP plane searched by air while a sheriff’s dog attempted to pick up a scent.

“We’ve done just about everything imaginable,” Deputy Dave Kirby said before the search was called off.

Now, the newlyweds are holding out hope that he is found safe. They have postponed their honeymoon until they know what happened to Moparti.

“My dad missing is the only thing going on in my head right now, nothing else,” Durga said.

The search has indefinitely been called off according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. An official reason has not been given.