Over a year after his death, the Deonar-based family of 24-year-old Manav Lalwani has a ray of hope in his case, as the Sessions Court has directed the Mumbai police to register an FIR in his suicide. His family had alleged that his woman friend had abetted the suicide. They had written several times to the police seeking an FIR. After the Kurla Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court refused to give an order, the family approached the Sessions court.

On December 2, 2021, Manav hanged himself on the terrace of his residence in Deonar. He had had dinner with his friend Mahima Thakur before this. The Trombay police had filed an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in connection with the incident. Manav’s father Prakash Lalwani had written an application to the then Mumbai police commissioner seeking an FIR.