An elderly widow ran from one police station to another for four days, pleading with officers to find her 38-year-old son, who left home to visit her maternal aunt on October 6 but did not return. Feeling helpless, she finally approached DSP (City-1) Harsimrat Singh Bal on October 9, and a DDR (daily diary register) was finally registered with the promise of further action.

The woman’s fanatic search for her son, however, ended when the family received a call from the Mohali Phase 11 police station, informing Mahavir Rana had died in a road accident and his body was kept at the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Phase 6.

“We immediately visited the hospital. Hospital staff revealed that the body had been there since October 6 and that they informed the police the very night after retrievi

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