Delhi Crime Season 3 is a powerful attack on the veiled and disguised techniques adopted in the business of girl trafficking, shedding light on hitherto unexplored channels of the trafficking industry. It begins with the scene of a mass marriage conducted between teenaged girls and middle-aged men as a channel for the girls ultimately ‘exported’ to foreign countries in South Asia like Bangkok and Singapore never to return. The girls, from very impoverished families in small towns realise the trickery they have been trapped in but it is a one-way ticket and all exit doors are locked forever.

This time, the subject chosen maps such a wide horizon that the “Delhi” in the title becomes almost a misnomer as the narrative towards the exposure and arrest of the men and women involved in the huge trafficking ‘industry’ are spread right across the country spanning Haryana, Assam, Rohtak and so on coming back to Delhi again and again as the special team is based in Delhi.

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The chief agent in India is Meena aka Badi Didi (a very heavily made-up Huma Quereshi) who runs a girl trafficking business, specialising in young, underage girls. She has another sub-agent named Kalyani (Mita Vashisht) who, however, is killed in cold blood when the Delhi police capture her to be present in a court case.

The settings keep changing, from Rohtak, Assam, Muzaffarpur, Surat, Mumbai and more, even a detour to Thailand but the case is handled by the Delhi team comprised of the very strong and courageous, DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, played by Shefali Shah who struggles with her college-going daughter’s questioning of the........

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