Criminal Justice – Online HINDI

Criminal Justice – Intro

Criminal Justice is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller legal drama web series for Hotstar Specials, based on the 2008 British television series of the same name, written by Shridhar Raghavan and was directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia. Starring Pankaj Tripathi, Vikrant Massey, Jackie Shroff, Anupriya Goenka and Mita Vashisht in lead roles, the storyline follows life of individuals on a gut wrenching journey through the criminal justice system.

View all episodes

Criminal Justice was released through Hotstar on 5 April 2019. It received positive response from critics, praising the performances of the principal characters, Tripathi, Massey and Shroff respectively. In February 2020, the makers announced for the second season, titled Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors, which was released through Disney+ Hotstar on 24 December 2020.

Criminal Justice – Season 1 – Summary

Criminal Justice is a thriller series, starring Pankaj Tripathi, Vikrant Massey, Jackie Shroff, Anupriya Goenka, Mita Vashisht, Rucha Inamdar, Jagat Rawath, Rithuraj Singh, Tuhina Vora. The series focuses on how Aditya Sharma’s (portrayed by Vikrant Massey) life changes after being falsely accused for murdering Sanaya Rath (portrayed by Madhurima Roy). The series is split into 10 episodes.

The series starts by introducing Aditya Sharma as a cab driver who comes from a middle-class family. He will have plans of meeting his friends at a pub after completing his work, but a foul mouthed lady sits in his cab and keeps on changing location, because of which all his night plans become jeopardized, while talking to her they realise that they are alumni of the same college. The lady suffers from mood swings, so it can be easily come to know that she is a drug addict. The lady’s name later revealed to be Sanaya Rath.

She asks him to drop her to her house one last time, he pushes off from the place in a Jiffy. Aditya then realises that the lady had left her mobile in the cab itself, he makes a U-turn and returns the mobile to her. She invites him (he shouldn’t have done that) in the house and they soon start hitting on each other and one thing leads to another and they end up having a one-night stand. He wakes up and when he is about to leave, he goes to Sanaya’s room to inform her that he is leaving, and finds her dead with 8 stabs all around her back. He takes the knife with which they had played a dangerous game and cleans the blood stains on it and takes it along with him.

He panics and leaves the place, in the meanwhile a neighbor happens to see him because of the car’s sieren. He then bumps into police on his way (if he had continued this way he would never get caught) because of fear of getting caught, he makes a U-turn and takes another route, he is unable to concentrate on road and bumps into another person’s car, and a brawl breaks out between him and the other person, police gather around them and both of them are charged for drunk and driving. In the meantime, Sanaya Rath’s murder comes to light and police are informed about her murder.

Aditya gets caught in the police station itself when the neighbor who will be giving his statement happens to identify him as the murderer, the police inspector ‘Raghu Salian’ (Pankaj Saraswat) and the others search him and they find the murder weapon (they at least assume it to be) with him. While interrogating, Madhav Mishra (Pankaj Tripathi) a street-smart advocate happens to mistake Aditya’s case to be a drunk and driving case and tells Raghu Salian that he is Aditya’s lawyer, he then realises that he will be handling a murder case and that’s how his life changes.

Madhav Mishra informs Aditya’s parents about the crime and that Aditya has been accused of murdering and raping Sanaya Rath. Aditya is produced before the magistrate within 24 hours and he pleads not guilty, however, his request for bail is rejected by the Magistrate. Because of which he will be placed in Police custody for 14 days. Aditya agrees to do a narco test, and a selected portion of it is shown online.

People start shaming the taxi services company where Aditya will be working. Aditya’s brother-in-law (Gaurav Dwiwedi) soon starts getting harassed by recovery agents due to non-payment of loan. Aditya’s sister (Rucha Inamdar) loses her job and the entire family becomes a victim of ridicule by the society. Raghu Salian is hell bent on proving that Aditya is the murderer. Mandira Mathur (Mita Vashisht), a Supreme Court advocate soon starts looking after Aditya’s case, she starts representing Aditya and becomes the defence lawyer and Advocate Bhandarkar (Ninad Kamat) becomes the public prosecutor.

She has a knack with her usage of words, she helps drop Aditya’s charge on rape by proving that it was consensual, but however fails to get him an acquittal. Aditya is asked to sign a plea bargaining agreement (where if you plead guilty your sentence will be reduced), as all the evidences point towards him. Mandira Mathur drops the case and Nikhat (Anupriya Goenka), her assistant starts representing Aditya as she asks Aditya to listen to what his heart says, because of which Aditya pleads not guilty.

The series soon drifts into life spent by a convict in prison, this is where we can draw similarity between Criminal Justice Season 1 and Shawshank redemption, where you see Aditya slowly adapting to the prison environment, just like Andrew Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins). He joins Mustafa (Jackie Shroff) and gang, after being rescued by Taklya (Tushar Gaware) when Layak Talukdar (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) tries to seduce him.

The prison is entirely split into two groups, Layak’s gang and Mustafa’s gang. Aditya starts jelling with Mustafa and gang and in one of the episodes, Aditya is sent to Solitary confinement for 1 year along with Mustafa for being wrongfully caught for peddling drugs in the prison. And then the series focuses on how Aditya starts rebelling against Layak becoming like one of the member of Mustafa’s gang. Meanwhile, Aditya’s sister divorces her husband and battles for child custody, Aditya’s father starts earning again to survive. But they are still left with hope that Aditya will get released from the prison one day.

Coming back to the case, Nikhat and Madhav start investigating the case together and they build a good rapport with each other. Nikhat, Madhav and Raghu Salian soon find out that Sanaya Rath is a drug addict, and she was a volunteer in LDFR, a drug rehabilitation centre, run by Naresh Lakani and his wife Kanika Lakani, a girl named Pallavi (ex-employee of LDFR) reveals that Naresh Lakani runs a racket of child prostitution by trading under privileged children.

Sanaya wanted to reveal this secret to public and Kanika Lakani wanted to stop this from happening. In the end, Aditya fights with Layak and when he is about to kill him, Mustafa does it for him. Aditya is released from the prison. He comes out braver and better than what he was before going into prison.

Share this: