India, May 20 -- More than seven months after Sachin Kurmi, a local functionary of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was stabbed to death on October 4 while on a post-dinner walk in Byculla, his family are still awaiting justice.

After approaching several political leaders, addressing multiple press conferences, and even sitting on a hunger strike for four days, the family now plans to move the Bombay high court.

Despite the Mumbai police arresting six people for the murder and invoking the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), the family has expressed distrust in the investigation and alleged that Kurmi was killed by his political opponents, a claim that the Mumbai police have rejected so far. According to t...