The Desi Crime Podcast

July 20, 2009. In a Mumbai courtroom, a trial has been under way for months. But before today's witness can begin, the accused has a request. He asks the judge to let him address the court and admit his guilt. The accused is Ajmal Kasab, the only one of the ten Mumbai attackers to have been captured alive. A gasp ripples through the room. Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam objects, but the judge lets Kasab speak. As Kasab recounts the attacks, the gunman who entered Mumbai with a rifle seems to describe more and more of what happened as if it happened without him. This is the story of those attacks, the one surviving gunman, and the lawyer who helped put him to death. This is the story of Ajmal Kasab and Ujjwal Nikam. Watch Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam, in theaters October 16, 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In February 2012, American interior designer Wendy Albano flew halfway across the world to Bangkok. Days later, a hotel employee entered her luxury suite and found the 52-year-old dead on the bathroom floor, strangled and stabbed repeatedly. There was no obvious sign of who could have wanted Wendy dead. But the hotel’s CCTV held one crucial clue: Wendy hadn’t arrived in Bangkok alone. For days, cameras had captured her with a mysterious young man, almost half her age. And just hours before her body was discovered, that man had picked up his bags, walked out of the hotel, and disappeared. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudiosJoin our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/ Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/ Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every year on August 15, Bangladesh remembers a family destroyed inside its own home. In 1975, soldiers entered a residence in Dhaka and assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family. Decades later, the date was observed across the country as the National Day of Mourning. But on August 15, 2013, as Bangladesh remembered the violence of the past, another home in Dhaka was becoming the scene of a mystery of its own. The apartment belonged to Mahfuzur Rahman, an inspector with the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police, and his wife, Swapna Rahman. From the outside, there was little reason to pay attention to the family living behind its closed doors. Until the following day, when something inside that apartment brought the police to its entrance. What they discovered would become one of the most unsettling and fiercely debated criminal cases in Bangladesh, raising questions that extended far beyond what had happened that night. This is the story of that home, and the family that lived behind its doors. This is the story of Mahfuzur and Swapna Rahman.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudiosJoin our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/ Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/ Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon: https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKWTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.