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Courtroom Chronicles

by Naveen Koti

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Latest episodes

EP021: The Bolted Door at Green Park — The Uphaar Cinema Trial and the Doctrine of Causation

October 21, 2026 · 27 min

On Friday, June 13, 1997, the opening day of the patriotic Bollywood blockbuster Border, a packed matinee screening inside South Delhi's Uphaar Cinema ended in unimaginable disaster. Fifty-nine patrons, including twenty-three children…
EP020: The Duffel Bags of Manor — The Neeraj Grover Trial and the Legal Boundaries of Grave and Sudden Provocation

October 20, 2026 · 34 min

On the morning of Wednesday, May 7, 2008, naval Lieutenant Emile Jerome Mathew bought a one-way commercial ticket from Kochi to Mumbai in the dead of night, driven by a tempest of jealousy and suspicion. He arrived at Flat 201, Dheeraj…
EP019: The Empty Chair at All India Radio — The Billa-Ranga Trial and Judicial Review of Article 72

October 19, 2026 · 26 min

On the evening of Saturday, August 26, 1978, sixteen-year-old Geeta Chopra and her fourteen-year-old brother Sanjay left their Dhaula Kuan home in New Delhi. Geeta was scheduled to compere the live Yuv Vani broadcast at All India Radio at…
EP018: The Unborn Witness — The Madhumita Shukla Murder Trial and the Forensic DNA Breakthrough

October 18, 2026 · 28 min

It is a warm May afternoon in 2003 inside a quiet Lucknow apartment. A young, pregnant poetess is shot dead in cold blood. At the scene, investigators find two stainless-steel tea tumblers, a spilled cup of tea, and crucial biological…
EP17: The Concrete Graves of Thiruvanmiyur — The Auto Shankar Trial and the Landmark Right to Privacy

October 17, 2026 · 31 min

In the sultry coastal summer of June 1988, inside a modest, single-storey brick house in Periyar Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur in southern Madras, a squad of police officers brought heavy iron sledgehammers, crowbars, and pickaxes into a domestic…

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EP029: The Cancer Pill and the Crystal — Novartis AG v. Union of India and the Battle Against Evergreening

October 17, 2026 · 21 min

In 2001, medicinal chemistry produced a miracle: Imatinib, a daily pill that stopped Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in its tracks, turning a fatal blood cancer into a manageable condition. Then came the bill. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis…
EP16: The Kalash and the Cartridge — The 1990s Mumbai Underworld Shootouts and the Rule of Law

October 16, 2026 · 29 min

It is the 1990s in Mumbai. The commercial capital of India echoes with the terrifying sound of automatic gunfire, extortion calls from Dubai, and turf wars between rival criminal syndicates. Amidst public panic, state police forces unleash…
EP15: The Skulls in the Nala — The Nithari Serial Murders and the Limits of Confession

October 15, 2026 · 19 min

It is a freezing December morning in 2006 in Sector 31, Noida. Inside a foul-smelling drainage canal running behind House Number D-5, municipal cleaners strike something hard beneath the black sludge. An intact human skull rolls out. Then…
EP012: The Camera in the Dust—State of Tamil Nadu v. Nalini and the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Trial

October 14, 2026 · 20 min

On the night of May 21, 1991, an explosive vest packed with military RDX and ten thousand steel ball bearings detonated at an election rally in Sriperumbudur, assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and killing seventeen others…
EP11: The Double Murder at L-32 — The Aarushi Talwar Case and the Flawed Crime Scene

October 13, 2026 · 23 min

It is a quiet May morning in 2008 in an upscale Noida apartment. Inside L-32, a 14-year-old girl named Aarushi Talwar is found dead in her bedroom with her throat slit. A day later, the body of the family's domestic help, Hemraj, is…
EP10: The Emerald Towers — Urban Encroachment, Public Trust, and the Blueprint Battle

October 13, 2026 · 22 min

It starts with a quiet suburban promise: open green lawns, sunlight, and orderly residential planning. But in Noida's Emerald Court housing complex, residents woke up to a shocking reality when a pair of colossal 40-storey residential…
EP09: The Midnight BMW — The Sanjeev Nanda Hit-and-Run and the Forensic Trace of Asphalt

October 12, 2026 · 22 min

It is a freezing January night in 1999 on Lodhi Road in South Delhi. A high-speed luxury BMW bearing diplomatic-style plates smashes through a police checkpoint, running over six people—including three police officers—leaving a trail of…

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About the show

Courtroom Chronicles brings true Indian legal battles to life through story, evidence, strategy, and the art of advocacy. From criminal trials and constitutional battles to corporate disputes, arbitration, technology, intellectual property, and negotiations, each episode follows the people, evidence, decisions, courtroom strategies, and turning points behind real cases. You don't need to be a lawyer to follow the story. The law is explained naturally as the case unfolds. Listen to the case. Question the evidence. Understand the strategy.