Review On Delhi Crime Season 2

Much like season one, yes, Delhi Crime season two is also rooted in real-life events albeit deviating from specific cases this time around.

In the trailer for season two, it’s confirmed there’s been a 20 percent rise in Delhi’s crime rate with the team looking into murders committed by the Kachcha-banian gang, which has become active after 20 years lying dormant. It’s said that the members became active all the way back in 1987. Apart from Delhi, they are also said to be active in other parts of the country like Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

The biggest Operandi of any crime can be his awareness and precise sense of observation. That’s what the Kachha Baniyan Gang did. They posed as beggars and laborers in the daytime and kept a check on influential families so they could rob them at night. Any form of resistance during the robbery would lead to murders. They killed and attacked with the help of knives and axes. Although it is said that the Kachha Baniyan gang members come from many communities and states, they are all tribal members.

Former Delhi Police Commissioner confirmed that ‘It took three months of painstaking investigation to bring down the “kachcha-baniyan” gang’. Neeraj Kumar, a former commissioner of the Delhi Police, wrote the book that served as the inspiration for Delhi Crime Season 2. Kumar said, “During 1990 and 1991, there was a spate of house dacoities with murder in which people would break into homes and kill every inmate in their sleep. Then they would ransack the house in peace and take away all the valuables.”

Lead detective Vartika Chaturvedi says the gang has been managing to operate undeterred and is not to make any mistakes which is why they are able to evade capture.

She goes on to detail how their victims are “brutally murdered” with the gang members using iron rods, hammers, and axes to kill people.

Another interesting detail the officer mentions is the fact the gang members cover themselves in oil when they go out on their attacks.

Delhi Crime’s makers were inspired by real-life gangs, which are also known as ‘Chaddi Baniyan Gangs’ and were operating in North India in the 1990s. Members of the Kacha-Baniyan gangs wore only their underwear when committing their crimes. They also wore masks and covered their body in oil to disguise their identities as they went about their attacks in remote locations.

Prior to their attacks, members posed as beggars, and laborers and would even do magic tricks as they scoped out houses to rob. The gang members would operate in large groups as they went about tying up family members and killing those who resisted.

Unlike season one, the second outing doesn’t follow a particular case but uses the gang as a jumping-off point for a fictional story.

Delhi Crime’s director Tanuj Chopra said of working on season two: “Before we wrote a word of the script, we went through documents and case files and interviewed reporters who covered the crimes when they were happening.