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Nearly four years after the unsavoury incident that created a national furore, the alleged offender’s life has come undone. He has been defeated by a system that does not deem him worthy of transparency or a chance at finding closure.

Shyam Mishra smiles nervously. Seated in a nondescript cafe in a Mumbai suburb, he looks around and after a few seconds of silence, leans forward and says softly, “Samajh me nahin aata hai yeh kya ho gaya (I can’t understand what has happened).” He rests back in the chair, eyes drifting ahead—perhaps tracing the past three-and-a-half years that seemed to have consumed his family.
Mishra is talking about an incident that took place in 2022. In the way he narrates his ordeal, time seems to condense, like nothing else has occupied his mind since.
On 26 November that year, his …
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