The role of the Nehru Nagar police in the Aarti Rithadiya missing person's case has come under the scanner with the railway police confirming that they had uploaded the teenager's photograph on the state police website on March 30, 2019, the very day she was found dead.

The Nehru Nagar cops, however, had uploaded her details a month later on the Mumbai police website. Centralised data and proper coordination could have helped them crack the case in no time but that did not happen. Even as how Aarti's case was probed over the past one year comes to the fore, it becomes clear that if the officers had followed the standard operating procedure (SOP), then her father's life could have at least been saved.