00:00If you've ever wanted to expose a liar who got away, then this story will stick with you.
00:05Smash that like button, subscribe, and settle in because what you're about to hear isn't just a murder case.
00:11It's a lesson in how justice can bleed for years before finally standing.
00:17Asterisk, Anand, Mishra, and Pyle Serka were the kind of couple you'd envy.
00:23He was a gym owner from Orissa.
00:25She was a brilliant software engineer from Asam.
00:28After three years of college, romance filled with late-night calls, hidden meats, and love that defied tradition theme.
00:36Married in 2008 against both families' wishes.
00:40But love had won.
00:41Slowly, even their parents came around.
00:44They moved to Bangalore and began building a life of dreams.
00:48A cozy apartment in J.P. Nuggar.
00:50A new job for Pyle at a top IT firm.
00:54A new gym branch for Anand.
00:56Laughter, progress, late-night takeout, planning kids, until December 17th.
01:02Asterisk, it started like any ordinary day.
01:05Anand was away on a business trip in Orissa.
01:08He expected to hear from Pyle by lunch button when she didn't answer.
01:13He brushed it off.
01:14Maybe she's in a meeting, he thought.
01:16But hours passed.
01:18Then her phone was off.
01:19Panic clawed at his chest.
01:21Something wasn't right.
01:23He called their building security, begging them to check the apartment.
01:27When the guard entered using a spare key, he found a nightmare got blood.
01:31Everywhere a trail leading to the bedroom.
01:34Inside was Pyle, just 29.
01:37Her hands, bound.
01:39Throat slashed.
01:40Her body stabbed at one thither times.
01:43Asterisk, asterisk, Inspector Amesh.
01:46The local police officer sealed the crime scene quickly.
01:49The apartment looked like a robber Riving's were thrown around.
01:52But nothing of value was missing.
01:54No sign of forced entry either.
01:56Which meant someone Pyle knew had done this.
02:00And Anand.
02:01He didn't show up until 25 hours later.
02:03His excuse.
02:05He'd been in Orissa the whole time.
02:08Business trip.
02:08But the grief in his eyes looked.
02:11Real Dot.
02:11And when questioned, he mentioned something odd.
02:14His gym trainer, James Kumar Roy, had once been fired after Pyle caught him misbehaving with female clients.
02:22Anand admitted there had been tension, an argument.
02:26Pyle had kicked James out.
02:28The police turned their eyes toward James Dot asterisk.
02:31Asterisk, CCTV footage near the apartment showed a blurry figure running.
02:36The security guard said he saw someone matching James' build.
02:40Using his phone number, police tracked James' SIM card.
02:44On the day of the murder, it pinged near Pyle's home.
02:47Six days later, they found James hiding in V-I-J-A-W-A-D-A Dot.
02:52During interrogation, he cracked Dot, and what came out of his mouth was horrifying.
02:57Asterisk, asterisk, James and Anand had once been close friends, almost brothers.
03:02James managed Anand's, Jim and Orissa handled money, bought equipment, but success corrupted James.
03:10He started stealing, groping female clients under the guise of helping posture.
03:16When Pyle found out, she exposed him, Anand fired him instantly.
03:21James lost everything, out of work and desperate.
03:24He begged to be rehired.
03:26Pyle refused it loudly, publicly.
03:29That humiliation, he said, pushed him over the edge.
03:33So on December 16th, 2010, when he knew Anand was away, he knocked on the apartment door with a knife tucked in his jacket.
03:41When Pyle opened it, he attacked, stabbed her over and over.
03:46He made it look like a robbery.
03:48Took her laptop and phone and vanished.
03:51Case closed.
03:52Right, except, this wasn't the end.
03:55It was just the start.
03:57Asterisk, asterisk, a year later.
03:59As the trial neared, Pyle's father received a letter from James himself.
04:04In it, James claimed everything he'd confessed.
04:07It was a lie.
04:08He said he was beaten into admitting guilt.
04:10That, Anand's parents, both senior police officers, had orchestrated the entire cover-up to protect their son.
04:18According to James, Anand was never in Orissa that day.
04:22His phone location had been faked.
04:24The call records James sent seemed to prove it.
04:27Suddenly, doubt spread like wildfire.
04:30Asterisk, asterisk, fueled by rage.
04:33Pyle's family petitioned the Karnataka High Court.
04:36Their plea, remove the local police.
04:39Bring in the CB, ITHE, Central Bureau of Investigation.
04:43They accused Inspector Amesh of destroying evidence, helping Anand, and framing James.
04:50In 2011, the court agreed.
04:52The CBI took over.
04:54And what they uncovered was ugly dot.
04:57Asterisk, asterisk.
04:58The CBI turned the spotlight on Inspector Amesh.
05:02They scanned his bank accounts, his calls, his movements.
05:06Was he corrupt or just sloppy?
05:09In the meantime, James wrote to the Orissa Human Rights Commission.
05:12He said he'd been tortured in custody, beaten, coerced.
05:17The commission awarded him one lakh rupees in compensation.
05:21So now we had a convicted murderer being paid.
05:24And a police inspector under suspicion.
05:27Was James telling the truth?
05:29Had Anand really killed his own wife?
05:31Asterisk, asterisk.
05:33By 2015, five years had passed.
05:36Still no clear resolution.
05:38Then a new CBI team took over.
05:40Fresh eyes.
05:41No bias.
05:42They started from zero.
05:44Their focus.
05:45Evidence.
05:45Cold.
05:46Hard.
05:47Undeniable.
05:48Here's what they found.
05:49Fake call logs.
05:51The call records James provided were fabricated.
05:54Confirmed by phone companies.
05:56DNA match.
05:57Blood and hair at the crime scene matched James not an on-phone location.
06:02On December 17th, James' phone pinged near the apartment.
06:05Eyewitness, a neighbor ignored by local police, had seen James walking nearby and heard screams.
06:12This witness had moved to Mumbai.
06:15Amesh, despite being under scrutiny himself, tracked the man down and brought him back to testify.
06:21Asterisk, asterisk, asterisk in 2019, almost a decade after Pial's brutal murder.
06:28The court reached a decision.
06:30They ignored the noise, the accusations, the headlines.
06:35Instead, they followed the forensics.
06:37James Kumar Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment.
06:41No parole.
06:42No early release.
06:44Just time and silence.
06:46Anand was never charged.
06:48Inspector Amet cleared of wrongdoing, though his career had paid a steep price.
06:53Asterisk, asterisk, if this story gave you chills or made you furious shit, that like button.
07:00And tell us in the comments, would you have trusted James' letter or the DNA?
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07:10Until next time, stay curious, stay safe, and always question the easy answer.
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