The “bytes" of the migrant families who had lost their children come back to me in a flash, two decades later.

They were horrified that the arm of one child, the slipper of another, and the clothes of a third were found strewn between bungalows D-5 and D-6. For months, they had been searching for their girls. For months, they suspected kidnapping and trafficking — but still held on to the hope that police would find the missing children. When the blood-stained kitchen was opened, and a cleaver and pressure cooker recovered, police offered a horrifying version of cannibalism. As the drains were dug up, more remains surfaced. Nithari turned into a destination for “horror tourism."

Two years later, just about a kilometre away from Nithari village,........

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