On May 18, 2016, the police control room in Delhi received a phone call. A young girl – clothes torn, barely alive – had been found in a pool of blood along the railway tracks near a drain in Southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur.
A preliminary medical examination revealed that Shalini, 11, had suffered “sexual assault”. There was a deep tear in the area between her vagina and rectum, and she had cuts on her neck and body. Her face was covered in bite marks.
