The beats of
Criminal Justice are familiar. Like the first season, Season 2 also operates as a gripping police/legal procedural, effectively chronicles life within the filthy confines of prison and culminates in a gritty courtroom drama. But the tagline of this season, ‘Behind Closed Doors’, is telling, ripping the veil off a murder spurred on by a motive that is most often shoved under the carpet, or at best, whispered behind closed doors.
c, whose prowess in cracking open clues was underestimated in Season 1, and worked in his favour. He walks in late, into what is dismissed as an ‘open and shut case’. The accused is Anuradha Chandra (Kirti Kulhari), a mother of a pre-teen who has given herself up and confessed to stabbing her husband Bikram Chandra (Jisshu Sengupta, impactful in a short role) one night. Anu, undergoing psychiatric care, is quickly labelled as someone who acted with palpable motive and with no provocation, and Bikram, himself a hotshot lawyer with a sque