A news report said the family had not received any feedback on the case from police in Malaysia.
The Hindu newspaper reported that T Gulsar Beevi, mother of T Mohamed Yaseen, 25, had petitioned the district revenue officer of Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu state yesterday to take up the issue with Malaysia.
Yaseen was scheduled to board a Malindo flight from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Chennai with his uncle on Dec 22 to attend a wedding in the family in their hometown of Ananthur.
However, he did not show up.
Beevi said Yaseen had been working in a supermarket run by his uncle’s son in Butterworth for the past four years.
He had called her and his uncle, who was in Kuala Lumpur that day, stating that he had reached the capital and would proceed to the airport after attending Friday prayers in a mosque.
However, an hour later, his phone was found switched off and he could not be traced since then, the report said.
It said a resident of Ananthur, who was also working in Butterworth, had told the family that he had seen off Yaseen when he boarded a bus to Kuala Lumpur on Dec 21.
A relative lodged a missing persons report with the Malaysian police on Dec 23 but there had been no feedback yet.
His maternal uncle, Mohamed Thaiyub Yaseen, told the daily that Yaseen was in regular touch with his mother and never complained of any problems. Yaseen’s father is working in Saudi Arabia.