What happened to 19-year-old Sneha Debnath?

Sneha Debnath left home at 5 am on July 7, saying she was going to drop a friend at Sarai Rohilla station. But she never made it.

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00:00That's a mother pleading for help. Her 19-year-old daughter Sneha Debnath,

00:08a Delhi University student from Tripura, went missing on July 7.

00:12Now she's been found dead. Her body was pulled from the Yamuna River on July 13,

00:16near the Gita colony flyover, six days after she left home, saying she'd drop a friend

00:21at Sarai Rohila station in Delhi. She never reached there. The cab driver says he dropped

00:25her at the Signature Bridge around 5.15am. By 6.30am, her phone was off. Her family approached

00:31the police, but instead of an FIR, only a general diary entry was made. Back home, they found a

00:36letter. Sneha had written that she was ending her life. They rushed back, still no urgency.

00:42Sneha's sister says police told them she's 19, maybe she ran away with a boy, nothing to worry

00:46about. When they insisted, they were scolded, don't teach us her job. So they went online,

00:51the case gained traction, only then did the police act, a day later. The investigation

00:56led them to the Signature Bridge, where none of the CCTVs were working. An FIR was finally

01:01filed two days after she disappeared. Meanwhile, her phone, now with a new SIM card,

01:05was traced to Malvianagar. On July 13, her body surfaced in the Yamuna. The family confirmed

01:11it was her. Now they're asking, why weren't the CCTVs working? Why was there no action until

01:16the case went viral? If she died that morning, how did her phone resurface elsewhere with a new SIM?

01:21Police say Sneha was under stress and had messaged friends. But for her family,

01:25that is an excuse, the silence, the delay or the apathy.