''India's Most Wanted'' (IMW) was a crime busting fugitive hunter television show initially on

Zee TV ZEE TV also known as Z TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 1 October 1992 as the oldest privately owned television channel in India. History ...

and later on DD1, India's national broadcaster

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

. The show was made famous by its Anchor-Director and Producer, Suhaib Ilyasi with his unique presentation style and criminals actually being caught with the help of television. The show is considered to be the first and the biggest crime show on television in India. This program has shown live telecasts and helped police with 135

fugitive A fugitive or runaway is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from jail, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals. A fugitive from justice, also known ...

s. Ilyasi later launched the show with

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in 2005. The show did not do well as it did originally on Zee TV and DD1. Media watchers blame Ilyasi for choosing a new TV channel (

) to relaunch the show.

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{{Zee TV Programmes Zee TV original programming Indian crime television series 1999 Indian television series debuts 1999 Indian television series endings America's Most Wanted

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