In today's Hindustan Times, I tell the story of a young woman who dared to love and marry beyond her caste and parents' approval...a woman who was shot dead allegedly by her father, and then stuffed in a suitcase and dumped by both her parents. Hindustan Times hindustantimes.com/india-news/lov…

When the victim's clear image was widely shared, it drew attention of families of missing people from across India -- one man even discovered that his wife missing for 6 months had eloped. But victim's mother just refused to acknowledge it was her daughter in the viral picture.

One of the more intriguing crime stories I have pursued. A woman allegedly killed another person to be able to pass herself off as dead, so that she could anonymously go about avenging her parents' suicide. A lot of it went as per plan. In today's HT hindustantimes.com/india-news/dad…

Payal Bhati's parents were threatened of a #falserape case, given death threats & humiliated publicly as they weren't able to repay a 5 Lac Loan. They ended life. To extract revenge, Payal faked her own death in order to kill those who caused her parents death Shiv Sunny reports

Still can't get over this crazy, crazier, craziest crime story! What an extraordinary turn of events and reportage. Shiv Sunny Take a bow!

From 2011, government data shows that as many as 121 students have died by suicide, 15 in 2022 alone (Shiv Sunny reports) hindustantimes.com/india-news/suc…

Success, distraction, anxiety at Kota’s famous coaching factory My report from Kota on its students, their parents and all the success, distractions, expectations and anxiety in between. hindustantimes.com/india-news/suc…

Officials said that they had so far “reclaimed” 4,180.6 square metres of land in and around the historic south Delhi area (Shiv Sunny reports) hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-n…

Relatives of two men whose charred bodies were found in Bhiwani say it was a Haryana cop who tipped them off about the injured men being brought to a police station. One of them, Junaid, was out to find a match for his niece, they say. My report from Bharatpur for Hindustan Times

Inside Entrapment Inc. —The story of how thousands of men across India have been terrorised by sextortionists, most of them school dropouts, operating out of villages in Mewat. hindustantimes.com/india-news/tex…

Sextortion rackets, mostly operating out of Mewat region, are leaving some of their victims hopeless & dead. HT does a deep dive into this crime that's so easy to operate & tough to crack. Helmed by Meenal Baghel, I report with three colleagues -- Shrinivas, Gautam & Vijay.

Text, sext, sextort: Inside Entrapment Inc. Online link to the story: hindustantimes.com/india-news/tex…

"The extortionists check out profiles of men on social media, identify their female relatives from their friends lists, pick out the pictures of these women, and morph them over obscene pictures. These images are then used to blackmail the men into paying up,” Scary

I recently deactivated my Citibank credit card. In response, they have sent me a demand draft for Rs 1.65 as credit balance on my card. While I appreciate their integrity, I don't really know what to do with all this money.

At a local market today, came across a stranger wearing the exact same shirt as me. We exchanged sheepish glances, smiled almost embarrassingly, and without a word, we both just knew — ek photo to banta hai. 😁 For that tiny moment, we felt like long-lost brothers. 😍

ChatGPT was trying to bluff with me!

A lot of social media posts and memes after Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s IPL century have got me thinking — and, to be honest, a little unsettled. Not because of what the 14-year-old has achieved. But because of what it might quietly trigger in many parents. Perhaps even in me! 🧵

As the father to a 2.5-year-old boy, my thoughts on the “arrogant” KBC kid.