1 The rain hadn’t stopped in twelve hours. It came down in long, dirty sheets, soaking the streets of Mumbai in a miserable, sticky silence. Neon signs flickered through misty glass. Puddles pooled over cracked footpaths. And somewhere between the dripping lamp-posts of Andheri East and the rust-red gates of Lokhandwala, a yellow-black Premier Padmini taxi came to a halt—and never moved again. That was the only fact the police could agree on. They found the taxi parked awkwardly on a side street near DN Nagar Metro Station. The driver’s side door was ajar, rain pooling in the footwell. The…