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Episode 266 - The Burari Deaths: Ritual Slaughter

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning of 1 July 2018, Gurcharan Singh went to check on his neighbours in the Burari district of Delhi. When he got there, he found a crime scene so chilling that the whole city was thrown into a frenzy. 

Ten members of the Chundawat family were hanging from the ceiling. Another, the 80-year-old grandmother, was found strangled in the next room. And the police, the public, and the national media were stumped – it seemed too complex for suicide; too organised for murder. And then, they discovered a diary that changed everything…

In the first case in five years of RedHanded to cause Suruthi to sleep with the lights on, we delve into the murky, ritualistic details of the Burari deaths.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:15.5

I'm Suruji. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Redhanded. I sat in front of that mic for a second. I was like, what am I doing? What am I meant to say?

0:21.5

It's happened. It's happened. I've lost my mind. Yes, we are getting

0:26.0

increasingly older. I'm so forgetful now. I put my keys down four times this morning and can't remember where they were. It's happened. In my building, I have to open my post with a key. And I leave my key in the post box three times a week.

0:43.0

Do you know what happens to the best of us? So it's fine. We'll get you a little panic. I need to get one of those air tags for my keys. That's why I need to do.

0:52.0

Also one of those. Yes. I'm one for me that you can have. I just have to wear a pendant around my neck. Welcome. You don't need to know about all of our aching bodies and forget our brains. Forget that, but do need to know about buying tour tickets.

1:08.0

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1:17.0

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1:32.0

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1:43.0

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1:57.0

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2:11.0

Now speaking of cases that are completely insane. Let's segue in elegantly into today's show. Not your best work. Well, I'll let you have it.

2:23.0

What's the line between faith and illusion? This is the question that sits at the heart of today's case. A case that's like no other. With a crime scene like one we have never come across before.

2:39.0

And it's also the first case in five years to give me nightmares and force me on the day that I saw a video of said crime scene to sleep with the lights on.

2:51.0

Yeah, she made me look at it too. Yeah, I did. I was like, I did say do you want to see? But then I was like, please do watch it because I have seen it. And I need somebody else to experience the horror with me.

3:03.0

More on that later for now. It was the morning of the first of July 2018 and it started like any other in the barriere district of Delhi, India.

3:13.0

It was around seven a.m. when people heard the milkman honking his horn on the street and the residents of San Nagar headed down to buy their milk.

3:23.0

As the street began to turn with the hustle and bustle of Delhi life, the locals noticed that one of their go to convenience shops was shut.

3:31.0

It was very unusual, but luckily many of them knew the family who owned the place, the Chandarats.

3:37.0

So one of the neighbours called the family, but there was no reply. Again, this was really not like them.

3:45.0

So since they lived just a few doors down, this neighbour decided to pay them a visit just to make sure everything was okay.

3:52.0

When he knocked on the door, again there was no reply.

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