( 1 ) GURU Nanak Pura, Tilak Nagar is three kilometers away from Nihal Vihar, Nangloi. Raj Kumar lived in Guru Nanak Pura but was no stranger to Nihal Vihar where used to live his friend Surinder Kumar. In the neighbourhood of Surinder Kumar lived Narain Singh with his wife and a daughter by the name of Pushpa who had already crossed the age of minority. On April 17, 1988 at about I p. m. when Narain Singh came backhome he found Pushpa missing. Failing to locate her he went to the house of Raj Kumar at about 1. 30 or 2 p. m. Raj Kumar said he knew nothing. He then lodged a report with the police. On the 23rd she was back home. The next day she was taken to the police authorities who got her medically examined and later produced her before a Metropolitan Magistrate who recorded her statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

( 2 ) WHERE had she been? This is how Pushpa unfolds the story. On April 17, 1988 at about 11 a. m Kumar came to her on a two wheel scooter, took her to the Inter State Terminal and from there to Ghaziabad. This part of the journey was completed in a bus. From the bus stop she was taken to a Jhuggi where the other inmates serv