For seventeen years it was spoken of as one of the most monstrous crimes in India's history, a case so dark it became shorthand for evil itself. And then, in a single court ruling, the foundation beneath it gave way. A high court looked at the evidence that had sent a man toward the gallows and concluded that, in truth, it had never really been there. The Nithari case is essential reading for anyone who studies true crime, but not only for the horror at its centre. It is esse