India, May 3 -- Nine years after Assistant Police Inspector (API) Ashwini Bidre was murdered and her killer sentenced to life in prison, her family is still struggling to secure Bidre's death certificate. Without this vital document, Bidre's daughter will not be able to claim dues against her death, such as her family pension, provident fund, savings, and life insurance. Bidre's estranged husband, Raju Gore, who doggedly pursued the case ever since Bidre went missing in 2016, has approached various municipal authorities to secure the death certificate, but in vain.

After Bidre went missing in 2016, it later transpired that she had been killed, her body dismembered and dumped in the Vasai creek. On April 21, 2025, the sessions court in Pa...