October 20, 2023.

It was 8.30 am. At the Tilak Nagar police station in West Delhi , police personnel were shuffling in for the morning shift. The day’s noise was yet to find its way inside.

The calm was broken by the loud ring of the phone. A resident of Block 25 in Tilak Nagar had called the PCR unit, which then transferred the call to the station. Sub-inspector Sukhpal picked up.

The resident said he had spotted the body of a woman dumped near a Municipal Corporation of Delhi school. “It is in an awful condition,” the man informed.

A team led by the then Station House Officer (SHO) Sanjeev Kumar rushed to the spot, 1.5 km away. It was around 9 am when the policemen arrived.

The body had been dumped on the side of the road, near the school’s boundary wall. A small crowd had gathere

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