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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: 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 For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

On the 26th of February 2011, a young woman’s phone rang somewhere in England, and the voice on the other end said something this woman would repeat, almost word for word, to a friend minutes later, because it frightened her so badly. The caller said he was ready to go to jail for her for twenty-one years. He did not say what for. By then, a car had already been set ablaze and a twenty-one-year-old man was dead, and within two days, three people would be charged with his murder. This is the story of that one car, that one death, and those 3 people. This is the story of Gagandip Singh. 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/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For 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.

In June 1974, at Royal Ascot, a horse called King Levanstell completed the race ahead of the Queen's own runner. Standing in the winner's enclosure was a thirty-five-year-old Hindu man from a village in southern Trinidad, who had arrived in London fourteen years earlier with nothing and drove a lorry for a living. By then he owned a hundred racehorses and had gone through twenty-four Rolls-Royces. Twelve years later, he was eating dinner at a Denny's near Miami airport when a detective slid into the booth beside him, pressed a gun into his side, and told him to get up and act like a gentleman. Because he was now being charged with double murder. This is the story of that one man, his life and the one afternoon that changed it all. This is the story of Krishna Maharaj. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For 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/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For 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/0WyttKW To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Indē Wild Discount: Use code WILD5 on the website for 5% off your order + 29% off already on the webside! Visit Indē Wild at: https://sl1nk.com/nvxg73w On a Friday morning in July 2018, a woman parked her Mercedes on a street in one of the safest neighbourhoods in Virginia. Her grown daughter was in the passenger seat. She got out to put money in the parking meter, which took her perhaps forty seconds, and in those forty seconds a man got into her car. He was covered in blood from the arms down, with a trail of blood on the pavement behind him. He was not wearing pants and had a marker in his hand. He did not say anything to her at all. What she did next was lock him inside her own car and stand on the pavement screaming for somebody to call the police. She had never seen him before in her life. Nobody on that street had. And upstairs, above the shop she was parked outside, was the reason for all this blood. A crime scene so brutal, it shook the state of Virginia. This is the story of that man covered in blood and the one man laying dead in the shop above. This is the story of Pankaj Bhasin and Brad Jackson.   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 Desi Crime early access, now only on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/23e00040-1692-4d3e-9a87-3b169e644500/the-desi-crime-podcast For 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.

In 1951, one of the most famous men in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was a batsman. Some of the greatest players in the world believed he was a genius. Frank Worrell said that if he were choosing a dream team made up of the best cricketers on the planet, he would be the first person he picked. Garry Sobers called him the greatest batsman who had ever lived. And was not just admired for how well he played. He was a celebrity. He walked out to bat wearing a silk shirt and a cravat. He practised his shots in front of a mirror every morning. Women who had never watched a cricket match before came only because he was playing. And on the evening of 9 October 1951, the country’s greatest sporting hero was asleep at a friend’s house in Colombo 7, recovering from an afternoon of drinking. That’s when the police walked in and arrested him for the murder of his wife. This is the story of that man, that woman, and a case that took Ceylon by storm. This is the story of Mahadevan and Ananda Sathasivam. Go watch Insidious: Out Of The Further, out August 21st. 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 Desi Crime early access, now only on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/23e00040-1692-4d3e-9a87-3b169e644500/the-desi-crime-podcast For 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.

On the night of the 29th of November 2012, in the same California county, two men ended up flat on their backs about ten miles apart. One of them was 66 years old, from a small town in Punjab. He got into IIT Delhi, then got on a plane to America in 1970 and built success. That night he was lying on the floor of his own seven thousand square foot mansion, in one of the safest towns in the United States, with tape across his mouth. The other was twenty-six. He was homeless. He had been homeless most of his life. That night he was lying on the pavement outside a corner shop in downtown San Jose with enough alcohol in his blood to stop a person breathing. The two of them had never met. Neither knew the other existed. By morning, one of them was dead and the other one was going to be charged with killing him. This is the story of the murder of Raveesh Kumra. Get your access to Wispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/desicrime For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios   Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join   For 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/0WyttKW   To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the 18th of August, 2007. A Saturday. And in a flat in Lokhandwala, in Andheri, a 16-year-old boy is sitting at a computer, doing what every teenager in India is doing that year. He's on Orkut. And in this boy's messages, tonight, like most nights for the past 3 weeks, is a girl. Her name is Angel. Angel is flirty. Angel is funny. Angel keeps saying they should meet. And the boy is interested, but he's being smart about it. Before anything else, he wants one thing: a photo. Send me a photo. And Angel keeps dodging. Week after week. A teenage standoff, playing out one scrap at a time. Until tonight. Because tonight she sends him a message: "Don's worry? m quite and gud looking. u wanna meet me??? Lez mette up na! wot say?" This is the story of the boy that said yes to a date that would turn out to be his last. This is the story of Adnan Patrawala. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios   Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join   For 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/0WyttKW   To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: 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 Download the game here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sd5kPlSXJm1rxLm1NEnJ1l9rWe8dCqBB/view?usp=drivesdk For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/ Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/ Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Want our content in audio-only formats instead? Head over to Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc. Apple Desi Crime: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-desi-crime-podcast/id1518305061 Spotify Desi Crime: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wgaUiSz7Gh2FJrBYfn0GM?si=aec96577d0434047 Amazon Desi Crime: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/23e00040-1692-4d3e-9a87-3b169e644500/the-desi-crime-podcast Creators & Producers: Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh Editing: Maria Casubhoy Thumbnail: Ayush Tuteja #horror #horrorstories #scary #scarystories #haunted #hauntedstories #Murder #Desicrime ##truecrimepodcast #truecrimecommunity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By the mid-1990s, Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian underworld was no longer operating quietly. Young gangsters were threatening each other on television. Brothers were being shot in traffic and left dead in alleyways. Their names were becoming larger than the crimes attached to them, turning into a strange mixture of warning, legend and aspiration. But one of the most extraordinary stories from that world did not begin with a drug deal, a revenge killing or a man walking into a nightclub with a gun. It began inside a courtroom where six men stood trial for executing two brothers at the centre of Vancouver’s growing gang war. Outside it, bodies were continuing to fall. This is the story of a juror, a gangster and a murder trial that became almost as scandalous as the underworld it was supposed to judge. This is the story of Gillian Guess, Peter Gill, Bindy Johal and the Dosanjh Brothers.  For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios   Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join   For 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/0WyttKW   To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A child of ten. Approximately one hundred injuries. A two-bedroom flat in Surrey. A flight to Pakistan. A handwritten note left next to her body. And a system that had been watching her household for over a decade. This is the story of a case that horrified the UK and beyond-- a case of bruises, broken trust, unanswered warnings, and a little girl who had been failed by the very people meant to protect her. This is the heartbreaking story of the killing of Sara Sharif.   For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios   Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join   For 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/0WyttKW   To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In July 2020, inside a luxury apartment building in Manhattan, a young tech entrepreneur vanished behind the doors of his own home. His name was Fahim Saleh. At just 33 years old, he had already built companies across continents, becoming known as an ambitious founder with roots in Bangladesh and a reputation for seeing opportunity where others saw risk. To the outside world, he was successful, driven, and surrounded by possibility. But inside that New York apartment, something had gone terribly wrong. Inside that apartment, was a scene so disturbing, it would shock investigators, horrify his family, and make headlines around the world. This is the story of that young entrepreneur, his New York apartment, and what went down inside it in July 2020. This is the story of Fahim Saleh.    For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios   Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join   For 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/0WyttKW   To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In September 2003, three young Singaporean students were sharing an ordinary apartment in Sydney. They were far from home, studying in Australia, living the kind of life that many international students know well. But one morning, inside their apartment, everything changed. Two of them would never make it out alive. At first, the case seemed to point outward-- to strange sightings and possible intruders. But as investigators looked closer, the story became far more complicated. Timelines shifted. Suspicions changed. And a case that seemed like it should have a clear answer became one of the most unsettling double-murder mysteries in Sydney. This is the case of Tay Chow Lyang, Tony Poh Chuan and Ram Puneet Tiwary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.