Inside Court No. 7 of the Nagpur District Court, a man is brought in under police escort. He's been here before. And he knows that how he can get away. But today however, feels different. Because today, they come for him.

 

Hundreds of them. Women. Mothers. Daughters. Neighbours. Armed with knives, chilli powder, and thirteen years of unanswered screams. They flood through the doors of a building designed to uphold the law; and make sure that he never walked out of it.

 

So who was Bharat Kalicharan Yadav — the man they called Akku — that people were willing to kill him in broad daylight? And what does it say about justice when the only place it could be found... was in the hands of the people the system had already failed?

 

Tune in to find out more.

 

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