The youth auto driver who was assaulted mercilessly and killed by a drunken fellow auto driver in Govandi had made a frantic SOS call to a constable for help. But the accused snatched the 20-year-old’s phone and disconnected it. The call, sadly, seemed to have been so brief that it was barely noticeable for the cop, who in any case had been sleeping.

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