It had only been a year since Pauline Crowther, an 85-year-old United Kingdom citizen, had shifted to White House, 7, Jantar Mantar Road — where the headquarters of Indian National Congress was once located — when she was found dead at her home in July.

Crowther was living with her son Daljeet and his wife in one of the 30 units — behind the Janata Dal United office — on the sprawling premises.

A nerve centre of political activities in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, frequented by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru, this is where the INC had shifted its base after relocating from Allahabad (now known as Prayagraj) following Independence.

In 1969, during the split of the INC, owing to a power tussle between Morarji Desai and Indira Gandhi, it became the headquarter of the Desai-led faction, and

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