Junk science and crime investigation in Nepal: What’s wrong? What’s right?

Crime can be serious, grievous, and heinous but crime can also be fascinating . Listening to criminal investigations has been a source of entertainment for almost all generations: the older generation’s fixation on Indian Crime Petrol or the younger generation’s obsession with series like Mindhunter in the context of urban Nepal.

The enigmatic nature of the crime is engrossing. Almost all crime stories have sleuths, the detectives. In modern crime stories, there are new Sherlocks: the forensic experts. The experts ‘breaking the case’ with their scientific instruments—saving the day with science.