'Delhi Crime' wins International Emmy Award for Best Drama series

Netflix series 'Delhi Crime' has won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmy Awards, making it the first ever Indian web series to win the award.

Netflix series 'Delhi Crime' has won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmy Awards, making it the first ever Indian web series to win the award.

The information was given by the International Emmy Awards on its official page on Twitter. Emmys tweeted: "The International Emmy for Drama Series goes to 'Delhi Crime' produced by @GoldenKaravan / @skglobalent / @NetflixIndia."

'Delhi Crime' is a fictionalised adaptation of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, with Shefali Shah playing a deputy commissioner of police tasked with finding the rapists and dealing with the aftermath of the brutal crime. 

In his accceptance speech, Director Richie Mehta dedicated the award to ‘all the women’ during the virtual ceremony. 

"I dedicate this award to all the women who not just endure the violence that so many men inflict on them, but are then tasked to solve the problem. Finally, to the tireless mother, and her daughter. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about you both and what the world subjected you two to. And I hope none of us ever forget that," he said