Emmy award-winning cop drama series Delhi Crime is set to return with Season 3 this year, Netflix announced at the streamer’s 2025 slate announcement event on Monday. Shefali Shah will reprise her role as DIG Vartika Chaturvedi in the latest instalment, going head-to-head against a human trafficking racket led by Huma Qureshi’s Meena.
Dropping a first-look teaser of the upcoming season on social media, Netflix wrote, “Open the case files. Madam Sir and the team are back! The Emmy award-winning franchise returns with their toughest case yet. Delhi Crime: S3 is coming soon, only on Netflix.”
The teaser opens with Vartika seizing a truck carrying young girls on a rain-soaked highway. Vartika is joined by her colleagues, IPS Officer Neeti Singh (Rasika Dugal) and Inspector Bhupendra Singh (Rajesh Tailang,) as they set out on a trail to uncover the human trafficking racket.
Helmed by Tanuj Chopra and Pooja Kohli, the upcoming season also stars Sayani Gupta, Mita Vashisth, Anuraag Arora and Sidharth Bhardwaj in pivotal roles.
“When the search for an injured baby's missing mother unravels a massive human trafficking operation in India, DIG Vartika Chaturvedi faces the most challenging case of her career. Pitted against the ruthless trafficker Meena, Vartika and her team - Neeti, Bhupi, and the rest - must follow a trail of clues that leads them to uncover a vast trafficking network stretching far beyond India's borders. As the investigation intensifies, the stakes rise and the case comes as a defining moment for Madam Sir,” reads the official synopsis of Delhi Crime Season 3.
Created by Ritchie Mehta, the Netflix crime drama went on to become the first Indian series to win at the International Emmy Awards in 2020 for its first season, released on March 22, 2019.
Delhi Crime Season 2, which arrived on Netflix in 2022, follows the story of DCP Vartika and her team as they race against time to catch the notorious Chaddi Baniyan Gang responsible for brutal murders in Delhi.