Why missing Indian student Sudiksha Konanki's parents want her declared dead?

Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old Indian student who has gone missing, has been reported dead by her parents to the Dominican Republic's police. While on vacation in the Dominican Republic, Konanki vanished. On March 6, she was last saw in Punta Cana town at the Riu Republic Resort.

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are collaborating with US federal law enforcement organizations to investigate her disappearance. The Dominican Republic National Police spokesperson, Diego Pesqueira, stated that the family of the Indian student wrote to the police to get a death certificate.

After Konanki disappeared from a Punta Cana beach in the early hours of March 6, ABC News reported that her family wrote a letter to the New York Post stating that there was no foul play in her alleged death. Joshua Riibe, the last person to see the young woman alive, has cooperated with investigators, the mother and father wrote, adding that they trust the authorities' investigation into the case.