When 19-year-old hotel receptionist Ankita Bhandari was found dead in 2022 in Uttarakhand, residents of the Himalayan State began protesting the seeming lack of intent to solve the murder. Last week, when a local court gave three men — one politically-connected — life imprisonment, her family was relieved. Then they found out that the case could go to the High Court. Ishita Mishra reports on the parents’ agony at losing their daughter and life as they knew it
When 19-year-old hotel receptionist Ankita Bhandari was found dead in 2022 in Uttarakhand, residents of the Himalayan State began protesting the seeming lack of intent to solve the murder. Last week, when a local court gave three men — one politically-connected — life imprisonment, her family was relieved. Then they found out that the case could go to the High Court. Ishita Mishra reports on the parents’ agony at losing their daughter and life as they knew it