In August 2007, a 16-year-old boy took his father's Skoda out for a drive across Mumbai and never came home. Adnan Patrawala was the son of a wealthy businessman, a teenager with a fast car, a wide circle of friends and an Orkut profile that told anyone looking exactly what his family was worth. The men he went to meet that night were not strangers. He had met them at a mall, added them online, spent time with them. Within hours his father was taking calls from people demanding 2 crore rupees. Within a day, every news channel in the country was running the kidnapping live, and the men holding Adnan were watching it happen. This is the story of a ransom that was never paid, a body found off Palm Beach Road, and a case India came to know as its first Orkut murder. This is the story of Adnan Patrawala.

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Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading:

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By the mid-1990s, Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian underworld was no longer operating quietly. Young gangsters were threatening each other on television. Brothers were being shot in traffic and left dead in alleyways. Their names were becoming larger than the crimes attached to them, turning into a strange mixture of warning, legend and aspiration. But one of the most extraordinary stories from that world did not begin with a drug deal, a revenge killing or a man walking into a nightclub with a gun. It began inside a courtroom where six men stood trial for executing two brothers at the centre of Vancouver’s growing gang war. Outside it, bodies were continuing to fall. This is the story of a juror, a gangster and a murder trial that became almost as scandalous as the underworld it was supposed to judge. This is the story of Gillian Guess, Peter Gill, Bindy Johal and the Dosanjh Brothers.

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A child of ten. Approximately one hundred injuries. A two-bedroom flat in Surrey. A flight to Pakistan. A handwritten note left next to her body. And a system that had been watching her household for over a decade. This is the story of a case that horrified the UK and beyond-- a case of bruises, broken trust, unanswered warnings, and a little girl who had been failed by the very people meant to protect her. This is the heartbreaking story of the killing of Sara Sharif.

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In July 2020, inside a luxury apartment building in Manhattan, a young tech entrepreneur vanished behind the doors of his own home. His name was Fahim Saleh. At just 33 years old, he had already built companies across continents, becoming known as an ambitious founder with roots in Bangladesh and a reputation for seeing opportunity where others saw risk. To the outside world, he was successful, driven, and surrounded by possibility. But inside that New York apartment, something had gone terribly wrong. Inside that apartment, was a scene so disturbing, it would shock investigators, horrify his family, and make headlines around the world. This is the story of that young entrepreneur, his New York apartment, and what went down inside it in July 2020. This is the story of Fahim Saleh.

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In September 2003, three young Singaporean students were sharing an ordinary apartment in Sydney. They were far from home, studying in Australia, living the kind of life that many international students know well. But one morning, inside their apartment, everything changed. Two of them would never make it out alive. At first, the case seemed to point outward-- to strange sightings and possible intruders. But as investigators looked closer, the story became far more complicated. Timelines shifted. Suspicions changed. And a case that seemed like it should have a clear answer became one of the most unsettling double-murder mysteries in Sydney. This is the case of Tay Chow Lyang, Tony Poh Chuan and Ram Puneet Tiwary.

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In a quiet neighbourhood in The Hague, a woman disappeared without warning. Her name was Sharmila Shinde. She was a wife, a mother, and an Indian woman living thousands of kilometres away from home, until she was nowhere to be seen. When investigators entered her home, what they found inside would turn this disappearance into one of the most chilling cases connected to the Indian community in the Netherlands. This is the story of that one woman, and that one home in the Hague. This is the story of Sharmila Shinde.

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A boy from a big Pune business family, a girl about to marry into it, and a wedding being built on a scale that barely sounded real. Then Ketan Agarwal went over the edge of Lohagad Fort near Lonavala, and for 5 days it stayed exactly what it looked like: a tragic trekking accident. But his fiancée Siya Goyal, a man in a hoodie named Chetan Chaudhary, 2004 phone calls, and a string of earlier attempts nobody saw coming turned this into one of the most disturbing cases India has followed in 2026. We break down every credible thread the police have pulled so far in the Ketan Agarwal murder case, and trust us, this one is stranger than fiction.

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