So you’ve watched Raakh, and now you’re rattled, restless, and insanely disturbed. But if the show has birthed a newfound interest in Indian true-crime series, you’re at the right place. The Indian OTT ecosystem has assembled a rich true-crime catalogue, and a fair chunk of it is flying criminally under the radar. So, if you’re looking for Indian true crime web series or docuseries that will shake you, here are some of the best ones.

1. Posham Pa

Here is one that almost no one talks about and really ought to. Posham Pa tells the story of Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde: two sisters who, along with their mother Anjana, kidnapped and murdered more than 40 children across Maharashtra between 1990 and 1996. The sisters became the first women in post-independence India to be sentenced to death for a series of murders. The story is told through a fictional documentary, where two filmmakers interview the imprisoned half-sisters and piece together a portrait of a household in which violence was normalised from birth.

Where to watch: Zee5

2. Aarushi: Beyond Reasonable Doubt

One of the most polarising and persistent mysteries in modern India, the Aarushi Talwar case has never quite let the nation go. In 2008, thirteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered in her bedroom in Noida. The next day, the family’s Nepalese domestic worker, Hemraj, was discovered dead on the terrace of the same flat. What followed was bungled forensics, media speculation, and a verdict that still divides opinion. Her parents were convicted of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment, a conviction later overturned on appeal. This four-part documentary series goes back to the beginning. It places prosecution against defence and believer against sceptic and refuses to land anywhere comfortable.

Where to watch: Prime Video

3. Manvat Murders

Criminally overlooked, this Marathi-language (also available in Hindi) series revisits one of the most deeply disturbing cases from 1970s Maharashtra. In a small town called Manwath in Marathwada, between 1972 and 1976, a series of ritualistic murders began. The perpetrators, a woman named Rukminibai and her upper-caste lover, were driven by a belief that human sacrifice beneath a peepal tree would unearth buried gold and grant fertility. What sets Manvat Murders apart is its refusal to lean on shock value. It is one of the best Indian true-crime web series you’ll watch!

Where to watch: SonyLIV

4. Sector 36

Though Vikrant Massey’s Sector 36 garnered attention, it didn’t make enough noise. In 2006, people discovered human remains in a drain outside a house in Nithari village, Noida. When police investigated the house, they uncovered one of the most horrifying crimes in recent times. A domestic worker and his wealthy employer had kidnapped, abused, and murdered dozens of children, mostly from the surrounding slum. Sector 36 takes this case and filters it through the eyes of a corrupt investigating officer (played brilliantly by Deepak Dobriyal) whose moral transformation gives the story its spine. It is easily one of the finest Indian crime films of the decade.

Where to watch: Netflix

5. House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

On the morning of July 1, 2018, a family of eleven was found dead in a locked house in the Burari neighbourhood of Delhi. They were hanging from the ceiling, bound and gagged. The front door was bolted from the inside. There was no sign of a forced entry, no intruder, and for the longest stretch, no explanation. Directed by Leena Yadav, this three-part docuseries is one of the finest examples of Indian true crime storytelling. It does not sensationalise; it sits with the mystery and allows the horror to accumulate at its own pace. The theories it assembles, family cult dynamics, shared psychosis, and extreme ritual devotion make what happened more terrifying.

Where to watch: Netflix

6. Scoop

Hansal Mehta directs this six-part series based on the real case of Jigna Vora. It follows a senior crime reporter at the Asian Age in Mumbai who was arrested in 2011 and charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. She was accused of conspiring with gangster Chhota Rajan to murder her rival journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who was shot dead in broad daylight in Powai. The premise alone is extraordinary. A journalist who reported obsessively on the Mumbai underworld suddenly finds herself accused of being part of it. Scoop is as much about the anatomy of Mumbai’s tightly interwoven police-underworld-media ecosystem as it is about one woman’s seven-year fight against the system.

Where to watch: Netflix

7. Barot House

Another Zee5 gem that barely anyone outside the true crime community seems to have found. A family living in a neighbourhood in Daman has four children. One daughter goes missing during a festival and turns up dead in a graveyard. And then, another daughter dies. Then the neighbour’s child. Suspicion swings between the father, his brother, the neighbour, and the family’s eldest son, who is just 8 years old. Barot House is a psychological thriller loosely based on Amarjeet Sada, India’s youngest killer.

Where to watch: Zee5

8. Dancing On The Grave

This four-part docuseries covers the Richmond Road case in Bengaluru, a murder that rocked Karnataka in the early 1990s. Shakereh Khaleeli was a wealthy heiress, the granddaughter of the Diwan of Mysore. She had abandoned her aristocratic life to be with a self-styled godman. In 1994, Karnataka police discovered her skeletal remains buried in the courtyard of her own home. The forensic evidence points out that she had been buried alive. Her hands were found clutching the mattress around her. The chilling documentary features the perpetrator and a trove of archival footage.

Where to watch: Prime Video

9. The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case

For those who prefer their true crime with a political edge, The Hunt is a forensic examination of the 90-day investigation following the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991. A suicide bomber killed him at an election rally in Tamil Nadu, a crime orchestrated by the LTTE. The series pieces together the painstaking investigation that followed, tracking the evidence back to the perpetrators through a web of international politics, undercover operations, and intelligence failures. It is part political thriller, part detective story, and entirely compelling for anyone who wants to understand not just what happened but also the extraordinary effort it took to find out the truth.

Where to watch: SonyLIV

10. Black Warrant

Black Warrant isn’t essentially underrated, but it deserves to be on the list, as it features real historical criminals, including the Ranga-Billa duo. Their case also forms the basis of Raakh, making the two an extraordinary companion watch. The crime and its aftermath were separated by decades but connected by blood. The series is based on the memoirs of Tihar jailer Sunil Kumar Gupta, a man who spent 35 years inside one of the world’s most notorious prisons. Black Warrant follows Gupta’s early years in the 1980s as he navigates an institution defined by caste gang warfare, unchecked corruption, and the moral weight of overseeing death row. The series is about institutions, power, and what it costs a person to remain decent inside a machine designed to grind them down.

Where to watch: Netflix

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