It started with a private recording but ended in a nightmare | Desi Crime & True Crime India

On October 6, 2025, a quiet night in Gandhi Vihar, New Delhi, was shattered by a massive explosion. What at first appeared to be a tragic AC accident turned out to be one of the most calculated murder plots in recent Indian history. Meet Amrita Chauhan, a forensic science student who used her expertise not to solve crimes, but to cover up her own.

Driven by a toxic cycle of love, betrayal, and blackmail, Amrita, along with her accomplices, orchestrated a "locked room mystery" that nearly fooled the investigators. But science always leaves a trace. From the lack of soot in the victim's lungs to the chilling discovery on a stolen hard drive, this story is a gripping look at the dangers of digital footprints and the lengths people go to for freedom.

In this episode, we dive deep into the forensic details, the investigation that cracked the case, and the dark secret that transformed a victim into a digital predator.

Timestamps:

• [00:15] - The Explosion at House E-60, Gandhi Vihar.

• [01:40] - The Forensic Science Lab (FSL) team arrives.

• [02:30] - CCTV footage reveals a mysterious visitor.

• [03:07] - Amrita Chauhan’s arrest and background.

• [03:38] - The meeting and the affair.

• [04:30] - The blackmail and the hard drive.

• [05:30] - Forming the "A-Team" for a fatal plan.

• [06:10] - The night of the murder.

• [07:00] - Orchestrating the "accident."

• [07:50] - The shocking discovery on the hard drive.

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Transcript

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Usually we talk about criminals being caught by forensic science, but what happens when the killer is the one studying forensics, meet Amritha Chauhan, a girl who knew exactly how to hide a body, but forgot that science always leaves a trace. October 6, 2025, 3 18am, Gandhi Vihar, New Delhi, India. While the rest of the city is asleep, house number E60 is screaming. A flat on the fourth floor is engulfed in flames. The neighbours are just panicking. This is a crowded area. If one house goes, they all go. The building owner Amit rushes up with his mother. They find the door locked from the inside. They manage to break in, but a wall of black smoke hits them so hard they almost pass out. The fire brigade arrives, and just as they start their work, boom, a massive explosion rocks the entire neighborhood. Two hours later, the fire is out. The rescue team walks into a charred graveyard of melted electronics and broken glass. In the center of the room, they find a body burnt beyond recognition. The police identify him as a 32-year-old man. Ramkesh Mina. He was a UPSC aspirant living on rent. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident. You know, the AC panel is blown out. So the police's theory is the AC exploded, the room caught fire, and Ramkesh died before he could reach for the door. So case closed, right? Wrong. Because this is where the forensics kick in. The FSL Forensic Science Lab. Their team arrives and they notice something is off. In an accidental fire, you usually see a V pattern of burn starting from an electrical point. But here, here the fire was concentrated directly around Ramkesh's body. It was like someone had focused the heat on him. Then came the autopsy. You know, in a fire death, you would find suit in the lungs and the carbon monoxide in the blood. This is proof that the person was actually breathing and alive while the fire started. But Ramkesh's lungs were clean. There was no suit in the lungs. His blood, no carbon monoxide, absolutely normal. So what did this mean? What did this translate to? He was dead even before the fire started. So the police start scanning the CCTV footage from the night of the blast. At 12 15 a.m. they see a girl entering the building. She's wearing a backpack, her face is covered with a dipata. For all those who are not familiar with what the dupata is, it's an Indian scarf. 15 minutes later, two masked men follow her in. At 2 15 a.m. one man leaves. Then at 2 57 a.m. the second man and the girl walk out together. Minutes later the flat boom explodes. The police track the girl's phone and by October 18th they arrest her in Maratha Pad. Her name Amritha Chohan, a 21-year-old BSE forensic science student. Welcome to Welton Mari Gold. I'm your storyteller Ambaka and tonight's story is about the Ram Kesh Amrita murder case. So how did a forensic science student end up in a murder plot? For this we need to rewind rewind to five months ago. May 2025, Amrita meets Ramkesh during a job interview in Noira. They hit it off, he's 32, she's 21, and within months, she moves into his flat in Delhi. But Amrita had a past. Before Ramkesh, she was in a messy, extramarital affair with a man named Samit Kashab back in Muradabad. Samit was married with a child, and Amrita's family had literally disowned her over this. They had even put up an ad in the newspaper saying they had no relationship to her now. By August 2025, the honeymoon phase with Ramkesh is over. Amritha runs into Samit again and the old spark reignites. She dumps Ramkesh and moves out. But Ramkish isn't a peaceful breakup kind of a guy. He is obsessed. He has recordings, intimate private videos of Amritha from their time together. He starts blackmailing her. He tells her, if you don't come back to me, these videos will go viral. I have them on a hard disk. Now imagine the irony of it all. A girl studying to solve crimes is being blackmailed with the very digital evidence she's actually learning to analyze. Amrita realized that as long as that hard disk existed, she was a prisoner to him. And that's when she decided that if she couldn't delete the videos, she would delete the man who owned them. So she begins to play it cool. She starts visiting Ramkesh again, pretending she wants a fresh start. But she's not there for love. She's there for that drive. But no matter how much she searches, she can't find it. And every time she visits, she has to endure Ramkesh's touch. The rage inside her is just boiling over. Amritha decides she can't do this alone. She brings in Samit and a third person, Sandeep Kumar. Now Sandeep was a cleaner at a police training center. Think about that. A forensic science student, a gas distributor, and a guy who literally works around the police. They thought they were the A team. Amritha uses her knowledge to draft a foolproof script. She knows that if a body is burned to a crisp and the room looks like an accident, the police might skip a detailed autopsy. That was their golden ticket. Cut to October 6th, 2025. Amritha enters Ramkesh's flat. She starts playing into a fantasy to get him to be vulnerable. She ties his hands and feet and stuffs a cloth in his mouth, making him believe it's part of their love game. But the moment he's helpless, the game, the love game ends. Samith and Sandi burst in. They beat him, demanding the location of the hard drive. When he refuses to talk, they don't just leave. They strangle him to death. They kill him right there in that room, thinking the fire will cover the bruising on his neck. Then they spend nearly two hours tossing the room. Finally they find it, the hard drive hidden deep within that flat. Now they trigger the accident. Trigger, yes. Summit, the gas distributor, knows exactly how to make a cylinder explode. They pour oil, ghee, and alcohol over Ramakesh's body to make sure it burns fast and hot. They turn on the gas, leave the room, and Ambutha performs a final trick. She reaches through a gap in the door to lock it from the inside. She wanted the police to see a locked room mystery. A guy, an AC unit, a gas leak, and conclude it's a tragic, tragic accident. And for a few days it actually worked. But then the police eventually catch them. Because as I shared earlier, the fire patterns and the lack of suit in the lungs proved it was a murder. But here's what happens. When the investigators finally plug in that stolen hard drive, the room just goes cold. They weren't just looking at Amritha's videos, they found private intimate recordings of 15, yes, one five other women. Ramkesh Mena wasn't just a heartbroken boyfriend or UPSC student, he was in fact a digital predator. He had a trophy room of videos, likely used to blackmail or control other women as well, just like he tried with Amrita. The sad part is this case leaves everyone with a bad taste in their mouth. Is it an act of karma? Maybe. But the law doesn't care about karma. In the end, everyone lost. Ram Kesh lost his life, Amritha and her friends lost their freedom, and 15 other women discovered their darkest moments were stored on a hard drive in a Gandhi Vihar flat. It's a reminder that in the age of digital footprints, some things we leave behind can be more dangerous than the people we face. This marks the end of this episode. Until the next one, stay kind, stay safe.