“Abhi body nai mili na? Ummed hai mujhe (The body has not been found yet… I am still hopeful),” said Arjun Singh (22) as he referred to the ongoing search operations to find his brother Devender (32). A flour mill worker, Devender had drowned in an open drain on Tuesday allegedly while making a video as the area near his house in South Delhi’s Mehrauli was waterlogged after a short spell of rain. Forty-eight hours on, the family was yet to get an update from the police.

Inside the dusty lane, where the two brothers live on rent in a single-room home, Arjun was sitting at an abandoned office on Thursday with some neighbours.

Eyes fixed on the door, hopeful that his brother could walk in any time, he said, “Iss baar gaon jaane ka plan tha sath me Hathras (UP) me… Diwali pe… (We had planne

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