child-murder

Thirteen-year-old Apratim left home on Friday afternoon carrying his mother’s iPhone. There has been no trace of him since. His mother may never have imagined that this would be the last time she saw her son. The afternoon passed into evening and the evening into night. But the boy did not return home. Time kept passing as his family waited for the phone to ring and hoped to hear Apratim’s voice on the other end. Where had he gone? Who was he with? When would he return? Unknown fears grip...

In a single week, across several districts, a few young lives have been taken by criminals, posing a profound questions regarding humanity itself. While the sequence of child rape and murder cases has sparked widespread public outrage, the prevailing sense of panic remains unresolved....