6. A Farce

The articles about Judge Loya’s death prompt five petitions for a formal investigation into his death. And they all land in front of India’s Supreme Court. Head to lumen.me/JUSTICE for 15% off your purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When a judge in India dies of a heart attack, his passing barely makes the news. But when his niece approaches a journalist two years later, she shares a different story: that the circumstances around Judge Brijgopal Loya’s death have made his family doubt the official story. Killing Justice investigates how one man’s death has become a lodestone for increasingly polarized politics in India. Following the reporting and legal fallout that arise from this tip, Host Ravi Gupta examines the conflicting evidence and grapples with the broader implications a single night in the city of Nagpur has on the world’s largest democracy.