A traffic jam, two Mumbai policemen returning home from work, and a call for help. More than a decade ago, this sequence of events unexpectedly set into motion the unravelling of a murder case.

It was October 10, 2014. Two policemen returning home after a long day’s work were stuck in traffic in the western suburbs of Goregaon. While they were near Oberoi Mall, they saw a man gesturing with his hands, screaming “Mujhe bachaao (save me)”. The policemen approached the man and asked him why he was shouting. The man seemed to be intoxicated, and the policemen allegedly heard him say that he had assaulted someone using a screwdriver. The person may have died, he allegedly added.

The policemen took the man to the Goregaon police station and handed him over to the on-duty station officer. When

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