Chandigarh, Nov. 29 -- An MBA student's rape-murder in 2010 that sent shockwaves through the city. A probe that went cold for over a decade. A semen trail that finally brought the case back to life.

More than 15 years later, one of Chandigarh's most haunting crimes reached its long-awaited conclusion as a local court awarded life sentence to the man who snatched a promising life.

The convict, Monu Kumar, now 39, was a 24-year-old taxi driver when he had targeted the 21-year-old woman on July 30, 2010.

He had found her alone, talking on the phone while sitting on her scooter near a secluded taxi stand in Sector 38 West. Attacking her from the back with a heavy stone, leaving her half dead, he dragged her into the bushes, where he raped ...