
Two-year-old Jagriti
Patel was sleeping with her parents and brother on a south Mumbai pavement when
she was kidnapped on October 20 last year. A police complaint was filed the
same day, but for three weeks police couldn’t lay a finger on a shred of
evidence. It was as if she had disappeared into thin air.Then, on November 13,
some slum children playing in a cluster of shrubs discovered a body. Jagriti’s
body was lying barely 500 metres from where she had been “kidnapped”. There was
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