On a warm night last May, Nikhil Somwanshi sent his roommate a WhatsApp message asking him to tell his family that what was about to happen next was an accident.
The message triggered a frantic search for the 24-year-old machine-learning engineer in southeast Bengaluru, the city of 13 million known as India’s Silicon Valley.
Somwanshi was a star student from a small village in the farm-dotted countryside. Nine months prior, he’d landed a coveted job at OlaOlaOla is a transportation…

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