Pakur

A widely watched Hindi true-crime account revisits the 1933 Pakur murder mystery, presenting it as India's first murder committed with a biological weapon. The episode describes the poisoning, the investigation of the era, and the unresolved questions that kept the case in headlines nearly a century ago, drawing large audiences to this obscure piece of Indian criminal history.

A new episode of the documentary series Wanted has been released, examining a 1933 murder case from Pakur involving royal heritage, inheritance disputes and a plague outbreak. Viewers are being drawn to the decades-old killing, which blends palace intrigue with allegations of greed and betrayal in colonial-era India.