On February 16 at around 10 pm, a mother’s phone rang with terror from Haryana’s Gurugram. Her 19-year-old daughter from Tripura, studying biotechnology, whispered in panic, “I don’t have time, I will be killed…A man named Shivam has been assaulting me for three days. He hit me, burnt me- he’ll kill me today.” Trapped and brutalised by her live-in partner, the young woman detailed unimaginable horrors during the brief call, her voice a lifeline in the darkness.
