Imagine if your life were to suddenly come under the scrutiny of strangers, fabricated with rumours and murmurs of dark family secrets. If every photograph, family vacation and neighbourly interaction were to become the subject of salacious gossip, echoed unthinkingly by the news. In the first episode of Trial by Error, Nishita Jha and Avirook Sen examine the events that transpired on the fateful day when Aarushi Talwar was found murdered and the venomous rumours that tainted the investigation and trial.