The Desi Crime Podcast

Imagine you’re living in a small middle town in the state of Oregon in 1981. Living in a ranching town with just about 50 people, you were most probably white. Life was quiet and life was simple but life was good for you there. Until one day, something seemed different. Cars and people, including Rolls Royces show up at your small sleepy town. And the people seem different— dressed in reddish orange robes, they chant music, hold ceremonial events, even have the roads around them closed off, and from there things only get weirder and scarier and more illegal. This is the story of one such sleepy American town and the one man who changed it all. This is the story of Osho. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

Live in Mumbai on 21st April. Get your tickets here: https://zoma.to/live-event/33059 Register for Meet and Greet if you have tickets: https://mg.socialnationnow.com/desicrime (LIMITED SPOTS)Meeting the desi fam is gonna BE CRAZY and DESI (can't guarantee safe hehe).

Live in Mumbai on 21st April. Get your tickets here: https://zoma.to/live-event/33059If you have a ticket and want to meet us, limited spots are open. Register here: https://mg.socialnationnow.com/desicrime[RECAST] On May 18th, an email was sent out to the faculty of Shiv Nadar University at 1:20 pm, which had a link to a confession video. This email was sent to 11 people on the campus. The recipients included a student and some authorities. It was sent by a second year sociology student named Anuj Kumar. The email was titled, ‘S#c#de Note.’ This case shocked students across Indian Universities. Is it that easy to bring a gun inside a college campus? Why did Anuj Send that video? Why was Sneha killed? Find out on this week’s episode of Desi Crime.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:  https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

On the midnight of 23rd November 1993, a family’s massacre jolted Shubham Apartments in the Dum Dum region of Kolkata. When the cops arrived the scene of crime, they realized there was one survivor, 16 year old Sajal Barui. Soon, that notion changed. According to India’s Juvenile Justice Act, a person under the age of 18 is viewed as a minor, and is tried as such when they commit a crime. But there are a few rare cases that blur the moral distinction between a child and an adult, a minor versus a mature person, a kid as opposed to a killer. On the midnight of 23rd November 1993, those lines were blurred forever.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

Sandese Aate Hain is a beautiful, old bollywood song. This song is from the movie Border, which hit theaters across the country in June of 1997. That June of 1997, Border was also playing inside one of Delhi’s most famous cinema halls– The Uphaar Grand. By the time the song played and got over though, 59 people had died in the cinema. This is the story of one of India’s most infamous fires. This is the story of the Uphaar Grand. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

Sometimes, when Indians move to foreign countries, they migrate with dreams in their heart, stepping away from everything they’ve ever known only to be able to live a better life. This is exactly what Lovely and Mathew Varugese thought they were doing when they moved from India to the United States in 1990. But 2 decades later, every dream they ever came with was going to come crashing down the night their son disappeared. This is the story of that night. This is the story of Pravin Varughese. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:  https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

Kirat Assi was a young 30 year old  living in a world where it was becoming more and more common to find love, companionship, and connection online but also a world where deception, scam, and abuse behind a screen ran rampant. This is the story of a single text received in 2010 that changed Kirat’s life and a decade long romance that never actually existed in reality. This is the story of Kirat Assi and her love, Bobby.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:  https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaan: https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya: https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

To listen to the full episode, head on over to our new podcast, The Bhootbusters Podcast, to get your weekly dose of Chai & Chithi: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TlBzoTNUOSsd0HEE8FJYQ?si=10a5042ab0fd4de8Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chai-chithi-17-the-desi-horror-podcast/id1728625464?i=1000648565087Amazon: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/episodes/595de227-6d40-4631-8e49-31fcc7f8c99f/the-bhootbusters-podcast-creepy-nurse-horror-story-chai-chithi-17Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: 1. The Tonhi2. The Gatekeeper 3. Manjulika 4. The Red SwiftTo send us your scary stories to read, write to us at staydesi [at] thedesistudios [dot] com. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosLove our faces? Head over to YouTube to view our content in video format: https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=sJTzUuw6MrQQhhDdFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/bhootbusters/Aryaanhttps://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwaryahttps://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

With 33 locations in India and 72 across the world, this Saravana Bhawan has set the benchmark for India’s culinary offerings. But hidden inside Sarvanna Bhawan’s dosa isn’t just a delicious potato mix, but a mysterious ingredient that took years to unfurl. An ingredient that had captured the state of Tamil Nadu, jolting its capital city of Chennai to a halt. That secret ingredient was murder. This is the story of the man who built a dosa empire that feeds millions across the world, and his ultimate downfall. This is the story of the Deadly Dosa King, P. Rajagopal.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join

[RECAST EPISODE] This episode was uploaded last year, but in light of the recent documentary, we are releasing it as an extra episode that sheds light on the aspects of the case that the documentary did not.

Justice delayed is justice denied. This is a phrase embedded within the very being of every judicial system in the world. Or, at least it should be. Yet the essence of this phrase is sometimes hard to live by. Sometimes comes before us a case so shocking yet so convoluted that not years but decades pass by without a shred of justice. Such is the case of a 21 year old nun from Kerala. A woman whose brutal death in 1992 remained unsolved till December of 2020. This is the story of Sister Abhaya. Buy Our Crazy Desi Merch: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor extra episodes, bloopers, early access etc, join the Desi Family at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinFor updates, bts, case summaries, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaanhttps://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwaryahttps://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

Take a second and think about your mom. You probably smiled a little just now. Everyone’s mom is their life’s singlehanded superhero. Countless pieces of song, film and poetry have been dedicated to moms; it’s a relationship like no other and all dads seem to know they come a close second. So what happens when that very same mom, the one you’d take or fire a bullet for, spirals down into a path of sinister crime, and decides to take you along with her? This is the story of one such mother whose life of crime and lack of remorse turned her 2 daughters into the most infamous criminals the country had ever seen. This is the story of the Gavit Sisters. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:  https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our InstagramWant our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTubeLove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast: Apple, Spotify, Amazon

Home is supposed to be your safe haven; your bed, the thing you crave coming back to at the end of a long day. Your parents, the people you’d take or fire a bullet for. Between the four walls of a home and around the people you love, exists most of your life. That was all true for 13 year old Aarushi. Little did she know, though, on the night of 15th May, in that very home, those very people were about to conspire to commit murder…her murder. And they were going to succeed, making sure she never saw the light of another day. This is the story of what really went down inside house L-32 in Sector 25, Noida on the night of 15th May 2008. This is the story of Aarushi Talwar. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studiosFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Want our content in video formats instead? Head over to YouTube:https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=HBkPuoi3bFxx46tULove horror content too? Subscribe to The Bhootbusters Podcast:Applehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/3I4KvQugyBJIjf69WlJvVh?si=Leb_m209R8exHTqlJlXcKQAmazonhttps://music.amazon.in/podcasts/564ff27d-d49f-443b-9fa1-318fab5630aa/the-bhootbusters-podcastAryaanhttps://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwaryahttps://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

To listen to the full episode, head on over to our new podcast, The Bhootbusters Podcast, to get your weekly dose of Chai & Chithi  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4n6SRj0Pqmy9Tajed9uH8k?si=763f084076584c85 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bhootbusters-podcast/id1728625464 Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading:  The Twin Brother Room 502 It Watches by the Window  Come Hither To send us your scary stories to read, write to us at staydesi [at] thedesistudios [dot] com.  For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:  https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join To buy Desi Studios merch, visit:  https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Love our faces? Head over to YouTube to view our content in video format:  https://youtube.com/@thedesistudios?si=sJTzUuw6MrQQhhDd For fastest updates, follow our socials at:  https://www.instagram.com/bhootbusters/ Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/ Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/

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This is the story of the man who created India’s first crime show: every week he was on television screens around the nation narrating the exploits of the most devious criminals of the time, until January 10, 2000, when he found himself at the center of a criminal investigation. The difference was, he was no longer researching or hosting this case, but instead living it – in the eyes of the police, the man that covers murder for a living, had just covered up the murder of his own wife. This is the story of how the host of India’s Most Wanted, became one of the most Wanted Men in india. This is the story of Suhaib Ilyasi.   Join our Desi Family on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudiosJoin our Desi Family on YouTube (for INR payments): https://youtube.openinapp.link/member   Buy Our Merch: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Sources: Suhaib Ilyasi vs State on 5 October, 2018 Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 No longer India’s Most Wanted: The rise and fall of Suhaib Ilyasi Suhaib Ilyasi - Wikipedia Suhaib Ilyasi Court Says TV Host Betrayed Not Just His Wife\'s Faith But Public Too Suhaib Ilyasi v. State.. | Delhi High Court | Judgment | Law | CaseMine Rukma Singh And Another v. Suhaib Ilyasi. | Delhi High Court | Judgment | Law | CaseMine Life Sentence To \"Most Wanted\" Host Suhaib Ilyasi For Murdering Wife - YouTube Ex-TV Anchor Suhaib Ilyasi Acquitted By Delhi High Court In Wife\'s Murder - YouTube Suhaib Ilyasi Of ‘India’s Most Wanted’ Fame Found Guilty Of Wife’s Murder - YouTube Former TV producer Suhaib Ilyasi sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of his wife - YouTube Court to announce quantum of sentence for India\'s Most Wanted anchor Suhaib Ilyasi - YouTube Crime show ‘India’s Most Wanted’ anchor Suhaib Ilyasi gets life imprisonment - YouTube Former TV Anchor Suhaib Ilyasi Acquitted By Delhi High Court In Wife\'s Murder Case | ABP News - YouTube Sansani: Know all about India\'s Most Wanted anchor Suhaib Ilyasi\'s case - YouTube India\'s Most Wanted - Doordarshan National (DD1) - video Dailymotion

Where do you feel the safest in the world? For most of us, the safest place on Earth will be within the four corners of our home. It is the certainty of intimately knowing your surroundings, with its many variables, that makes us feel safe at home. I know that the ringing of the doorbell at 10 PM is the guard asking me to move my car, or tapping sounds are from a pipe I have procrastinated to get fixed. The chances of something going wrong in my own home is minimal, almost impossible. That’s why when Yashomati Parekh left her daughter home alone in Kolkata, she wasn’t expecting to return to a scene that changed the city forever. This is the story behind India’s first execution post Independence. This is the story of Hetal Parekh. Join our Desi Family on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudiosJoin our Desi Family on YouTube (for INR payments): https://youtube.openinapp.link/member   Buy Our Merch: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios   Writer: Harsh Jain Sources https://www.india-hanged-innocent.org/court - all court documents. https://pudr.org/sites/default/files/2019-01/Dhananjay_Report.pdff - PUDR report on the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJ5q9I7HxY - P39A podcast with Prof. Probal Chaudhari who reinvestigated the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case and published a book based on his findings.  https://www.thequint.com/opinion/dhananjoy-chatterjee-rape-murder-case-14-years-innocent-or-guilty - Quint article on the case. https://www.india-hanged-innocent.org/articles - collection of news articles on the Dhananjoy Chaterjee case.  https://scroll.in/article/741784/how-india-hanged-a-poor-watchman-whose-guilt-was-far-from-established - Scroll article on the case.  https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/rapist-murderer-dhananjoys-story-comes-screen-look-case-shook-india-64644 - News Minute article on the casse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkWAY-82gA&t=5s - ‘The Right to Live’ documentary.  https://india-hanged-innocent.org/how - summary of the findings by Profs. Probal Chaudhari and Debasis Sengupta. https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/wife-adds-tears-to-buddha-s-hang-him-cry-meera-bhattacharjee-joins-campaign-to-ensure-condemned-rapist-gets-what-he-deserves/cid/737798 - The Telegraph article on the case. https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/homage-with-favourite-hymn/cid/721840# - another Telegraph article on the case.

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Welcome to Chai and Chithi, a segment where we take fan stories mailed in to us, as well as share some of our more personal ghastly experiences. Mail in your spooky, crime or desi stories to staydesi@thedesistudios.com

Over the last decade, India has been home to a slew of unexpected, scandalous and devastating suicides with sinister back stories. These suicides, those of Jiya Khan, Pratyusha Banjerjee, Sushant Singh Rajput, Tunisha Sharma and more, weren’t just stories of people who gave up on their lives. They were stories of crime, corruption, power, politics and our country’s criminal underbelly that led these young people to death. Today, we’re covering one such case, a suicide, that shook the country 11 years ago. This is the case of Geetika Sharma and Gopal Goyal Kanda. Mail in your spooky, crime or desi stories to staydesi@thedesistudios.com