Indian predator murder in a courtroom

The story of killer and rapist Akku Yaddav, who in turn was killed by a group of women, who felt they'd been failed by the legal system. The story of killer and rapist Akku Yaddav, who in turn was killed by a group of women, who felt they'd been failed by the legal system. The story of killer and rapist Akku Yaddav, who in turn was killed by a group of women, who felt they'd been failed by the legal system. The story of Akku Yaddav, a serial killer and rapist, who preyed on women, and met a very grizzly, public end. I approached this series with a small amount of scepticism, the third installment of The Indian Predator series, having not been blown away by the last two. This first episode, is much better paced than what's gone before, it's a fascinating story. It is, as with the last two, a little muddled, there is no beginning, middle and end, you have to just try and follow as best you can, or do a little research ahead of watching. The opening was very different, you wondered if there was going to be any dialogue, it went on a bit, but set the tone, gave us some nice visuals and music, it really did work. It is the ultimate story of revenge, you truly can undertake why that group of women did what they did, for them to commit such a crime, and be united with one voice, Yaddav truly was a monster. One minor irritation, the voice overs, with multiple voices talking over one another, that was unbearable at times. It's an interesting start, 7/10.

The latest instalment in Indian Predator docu-series does a commendable job unravelling the infamous Akku Yadav case. In 2004, a group of over 200 women from Nagpur’s Kasturba Nagar, the village that Yadav terrorised for years, had stormed into a public courtroom and lynched him to death. Suffice to say, the shocking news made headlines and promptly turned into a vessel for social commentary and political conspiracies. To be fair, it’s hard to reckon that the opening scene of Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom isn’t pure fiction. What starts with a seemingly ordinary chore-heavy day for the women of Kasturba Nagar, ends with them wielding swords and smashing stones into a person’s intestines in broad daylight. By Arman Khan But before you can wrap your head around the incident — did that just happen — you’re quickly flash-backed into the heart of the village, where most families hail from the Dalit community. In a cleverly woven storyline that intersperses between real-life news clippings and smartly re-enacted sequences, the series chronicles Yadav’s (whose real name is Bharat Kalicharan) descent into a serial rapist, murderer, extortionist, home-invader… and the list of depravities continue. It starts off with some petty crimes — gambling, looting — and then quickly snowballs into violence-induced robbery. Yadav’s no Robin Hood, he plunders the homes of the poor for his own pleasures and proclaims himself as the locality’s crime lord, with a fearsome gang in tow. Ove...

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On August 13, 2004, between 2:30PM and 3:00PM, the residents of Nagpur’s Kasturba Nagar slum in Maharashtra, India, gathered outside Courtroom Number 7 of the Nagpur District Court where local goon Akku Yadav was scheduled to appear for a bail hearing. Yadav arrived as scheduled, but never made it out of the courtroom alive. Murder in a Courtroom, Season 3 of the Indian Predator docuseries, produced by VICE Studios and currently streaming on Netflix, traces the slow burn that led to Yadav’s lynching. The true crime series written and directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni also serves as a testimony of sorts of the accounts of the residents of Kasturba Nagar who survived the terrifying reign of the gangster, serial rapist, and murderer born Bharat Kalicharan Yadav. Resha Raut, the sister of Asha Bhagat, a woman he brutally killed and mutilated, also features in the series and is among the many who witnessed Yadav’s brutality first-hand. “Aapko batate hue humein rona aata hai (Telling you [what happened] makes me cry),” she told VICE in Hindi over the phone. “We lived in fear every waking moment. Children stopped going to school. Like many women I, too, stopped going out of the house altogether. No marriage proposals for women from Kasturba Nagar ever got accepted. There were no relatives coming from or going to anyone’s house or any celebrations taking place. All because of Akku. He would beat the living daylights out of people, just because he could. He raped three girls and e...