Desi Crime Podcast

Desi Killers, Desi Kidnappers, Desi Criminals - find them here. Brought to you by Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh, powered by Lost Debate. We are your one stop shop for all things Desi, and all things Crazy. www.desicrime.com Tooooooooo much of true crime is centered around America - New York murder this and Chicago Killer that. What about the Delhi Dons and Karachi killers and Bangladeshi Burglars?! If you are tired of the the same-old American murderer, British killer, Australian kidnapper, Canadian stalker… NO MORE! The Desi Crime Podcast brings DESI crimes. From India, Pakistan, Nepal and other brown communities, we’ll bring you cases that can only be described as Desi. Crimes that take place in the Indian subcontinent aren’t remotely similar to Western crimes— desi crimes are gory, complicated, corrupt and hardly documented. After thorough research on the most sinister cases, we’ll take you on a bumpy, jaw dropping ride around South Asia. Crime is a popular genre in India. CID was watched by boomers, John Grisham was read by millennials, and now, The Desi Crime Podcast is there for Gen Z.

Episodes

99. Chai & Chithi 15

August 19, 2023 • 31 mins

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 desicrime@thebranchmedia.org.

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98. The Death of Geetika Sharma

August 13, 2023 • 45 mins

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...

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97. Chai & Chithi 14

August 4, 2023 • 33 mins

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96. The Tragic Life of Chamari Liyanage - Sri Lanka

July 28, 2023 • 32 mins

The cases you usually hear on true crime podcasts, the ones we usually cover, have a clear perpetrator and a clear victim. One person is in the wrong, the obvious suspect, the “villain” in the case. One person is innocent, the one who has been wronged and whose justice we long for. But then come cases that flip on their head our conception of wrong or right, good or evil. Today’s story is of one such case. It is a case of a woman, ...

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95. The Singh-Sica Triple Murder (Pt. 2) - Australia/Fiji

July 21, 2023 • 51 mins

1 bath tub, 3 dead bodies. A marriage in turmoil. A feverish lover. The house on 20 Grass Tree Close, Bridgeman Downs, Queensland Australia holds all the answers. On 22 April 2003, the police are summoned to decrypt this mystery. Clues lay scattered around the residence. But less physical evidence awaits them. The people evidence comes first. A debaucherous father, a complicit mother, and the vendetta of their enemies in Fiji stand...

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94. The Singh-Sica Triple Murder - Australia/Fiji

July 14, 2023 • 47 mins

Home. A word that denotes haven, tranquility and family, but it often transforms into a hell for many. Houses are fascinating, take the cement structure of a home that hides away tales and tragedies, musings and maladies, all while standing upright and resolute. From the outside, a house can cast a certain image and connotations. A tin-roofed hut in a slum for example connotes suffering, ailment, a sick child being nursed by an eve...

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93. Chai & Chithi 13

July 7, 2023 • 36 mins

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92. The Ajmer Rape Scandal - India

June 30, 2023 • 40 mins

Usually, when we cover cases on this podcast, we talk of the stories of a singular victim. A woman raped, a man murdered, a child kidnapped. And that one victim’s story is enough to enrage us; to make us feel sorrow and anger. But what happens when crime organizes itself across a whole city, engulfing more than 500 victims, destroying lives and scarring generations? This is the story of one such crime that has somehow been erased f...

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91. Noida University Murder/Suicide - India

June 23, 2023 • 59 mins

“She said that she wanted a break from the relationship. I asked her if I should at least hope that she will come back. She said no because she wanted to stay single for some time and that might change things for her. I could not accept that.” Parse through any teenage highschooler’s diary, and words like these are all too easy to find. Breaks vs break ups, situationships vs relationships, boyfriend vs ex-boyfriend, these duels def...

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90. Chai & Chithi 12

June 16, 2023 • 46 mins

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89. The Murder of Neeraj Grover - India

June 9, 2023 • 50 mins

Love triangles…a concept in existence for as long as love itself. But love triangles, unlike love, are controversial. They’re viewed as scandalous, calculated, and deceptive. Perhaps that is because we never hear of happy, successful love triangles. We hear of ones where jealousy, competition, ego and possessiveness take over, only to end in a tale of crime and disaster. This is the story of one such disastrous love triangle that k...

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88. Chai & Chithi 11 + Another Bloody Mary Encounter

May 26, 2023 • 44 mins

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87. The Joshi-Abhyankar Murders - India

May 19, 2023 • 43 mins

Imagine living in a beautiful, peaceful city in India. Life is going well. You have friends, a city you call home, you go to the movies on the weekends, maybe a family lunch date every now and then. Until, one day, you find the movie halls empty, people in their houses before sundown, terror in the eyes of every passerby, and fear in the hearts of thousands furious to lock their doors and windows before going to bed. This was what ...

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86. The Toffee Serial Killer: Ravinder Kumar - India

May 12, 2023 • 37 mins

“Don’t take candies from strangers.” How simple a teaching; how elegant. But how difficult for a child to resist a sugary delight; an alpenlibe or melody offered to you for free that to before dinner. Which 6 year old could say no? Had this lesson not been inscribed in our head, we too could’ve fallen for this scheme. If you now think how stupid some kids might be to fall prey to this modus operandi of kidnapping, keep in mind, you...

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85. Chai & Chithi 10

May 5, 2023 • 34 mins

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84. The Murder of Hae Min Lee (Pt. 2) - Pakistan/USA

April 28, 2023 • 52 mins

In last week’s episode, we covered the case of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee, a young couple madly in love until Hae disappears and Adnan is put under the scanner for her disappearance and subsequent murder. But I had left you with a lot of unanswered questions. Is Adnan guilty or not? For a lot of unsettling answers and even more unsettling questions, welcome back for Part 2 of the Murder of Hae Min Lee. Sources: https://www.reuter...

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83. The Murder of Hae Min Lee - Pakistan/USA

April 21, 2023 • 43 mins

You know that feeling of being young and experiencing your first love? Heightened emotions, the constant need to see them yet feeling your heart flutter when you do, that inability to go to sleep or eat, the hiding from your parents, the first touching of your hands, the first kiss, you get the picture. I know a lot of you listening will relate. There are few experiences as universal as your first love. But what happens when your f...

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82. Not So Jolly Joseph (Pt.2) - India

April 14, 2023 • 42 mins

One cardiovascular aberration after another. Stroke after stroke. Heart attacks galore in the Thomas household. 1 anomaly is understandable. But 4, that’s a bit much. Especially when the patients are in their 40s and 50s. And then appears out of thin air, a will, that allegedly of Tom Thomas. Almost as if it was conjured by someone who would benefit from it. Rojo Thomas believed that that ‘someone’ was none other than the newly app...

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81. Not So Jolly Joseph - India

April 7, 2023 • 42 mins

What’s in a name? Astrologers would argue 2 syllables might entail your entire destiny, such is the power of a name. But what if your life is the exact opposite of what your name suggests. Our protagonist today bears such a name. Her name is Jolly. Jolly Joseph. One of her neighbors went on record to say “Jolly seemed like the perfect woman to us.” If you didn’t know any more about this, you’d assume that praising a person in a tru...

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80. Chai & Chithi 9

March 31, 2023 • 35 mins

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Desi Crime Podcast

Episodes

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97. Chai & Chithi 14

96. The Tragic Life of Chamari Liyanage - Sri Lanka

95. The Singh-Sica Triple Murder (Pt. 2) - Australia/Fiji

94. The Singh-Sica Triple Murder - Australia/Fiji

93. Chai & Chithi 13

92. The Ajmer Rape Scandal - India

91. Noida University Murder/Suicide - India

90. Chai & Chithi 12

89. The Murder of Neeraj Grover - India

88. Chai & Chithi 11 + Another Bloody Mary Encounter

87. The Joshi-Abhyankar Murders - India

86. The Toffee Serial Killer: Ravinder Kumar - India

85. Chai & Chithi 10

84. The Murder of Hae Min Lee (Pt. 2) - Pakistan/USA

83. The Murder of Hae Min Lee - Pakistan/USA

82. Not So Jolly Joseph (Pt.2) - India

81. Not So Jolly Joseph - India

80. Chai & Chithi 9

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