India, March 23 -- Sixteen years ago, Sneha Patil (name changed), an eighth-grade student from Nalasopara, went on a school picnic to a hilltop temple in the Tungareshwar reserve in Vasai east, not far from home. Of the 150 children on the excursion, she was the only one who didn't return.

Sneha's lifeless body was found some distance from the picnic spot, naked, on a rock by a stream. To this day, her parents are still searching for answers about their daughter's death.

While her death was initially recorded as a possible rape and murder, various police agencies subsequently insisted it was accidental. One of the glaring loopholes in the investigation is the opinion of a panel of doctors, who delivered an "accidental" verdict after vie...