Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
31st December,
19:49 IST,
Uran Highway
Vipul: What did you find?
Bhosale: Nothing much, we will send this body to post-mortem.
Vipul: Any belongings, Phone, purse, anything?
Bhosale: No phone or purse, but a letter was found in his pocket..
Vipul: where is it?
Bhosale: Just a minute. Gawde, Evidence Bag de ikde..
This is the.. letter. But it is Arabic or Urdu..We will find what is written.
Vipul: This is Koshur..
Bhosale: You can read this?
Vipul: Not much.. Do the rest of the proceedings. I shall meet you next year..
Bhosale: Next year?
Vipul: Happy New Year in advance Bhosale
Bhosale: Ohh, Same to you..
31st December,
21:25 IST,
Uran Highway
Conrad: Do you know where he is or where he might be?
Bhosale: No sir.
[Conrad comes aside to talk to Rishab]
Conrad: His phone is off, we searched around his last known location, where did he go?
Rishab: Sir, I guess we should cover up his family, friends and relatives, maybe we can find him.
Conrad: First find me what is written in that letter and search Vipul everywhere.. You understand every where..
31st December,
22:25 IST,
Vipul Mahajani's residence,
NAVI MUMBAI
Conrad: Can you read this?
Samidha: No, I can't
Conrad: Did he learn reading such literature
Samidha: I dont know
Conrad: Yes he knew it
Samidha: He knew?
Conrad: Yes, he could read this.
Samidha: But what is this?
Conrad: This is Koshur, a language used in Kashmir Valley.
Samidha: What? Vipul can read this?
Conrad: You didn't know this, and I shall believe in it, isn't it?
Samidha: This is impossible.
Conrad: Anything seems impossible until some one proves you wrong.
Samidha: But how do you know if he reads it?
Conrad: Yesterday one NIA agent was killed, and Vipul was the first one to find him, and he reads this and disappears..
Samidha: What's written in this?
It says,
"Return me my thing on the place where you found it, We can find answers to all your questions"
[Phone rings]
Conrad: Hello
Rishab: Sir we have an intel..
Conrad: Location?
Rishab: Yes sir.. He was sighted at JNPT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust)
Conrad: So did we have him?
Rishab: No sir, he disappeared.
Conrad: What the... Is he some ghost, find him.
[Phone hangs up]
1st January,
00:15 IST,
Comittee Safe house
MUMBAI
Mishra: Hello Vipul.. Happy New Year
Vipul: Where am I?
Mishra: Thank me, you are atleast alive.. I didn't know, that you will actually jump off into water just to have some answers..
Vipul: Did you kill Mahesh?
Mishra: Why would I? He was my friend, we were allies.
Vipul: What?
Mishra: Are you ready to listen to a story?
Vipul: If it's true.. yes.
Mahesh: In 2009 NATI.. National Agency for Technical Intelligence was formed. We were core members of it.. Both competent but ineligible as per criteria. But still because of our good work we got the place in it. You know why NATI was formed?
Vipul: Yes, to have a single platform for all intelligence agencies to deal with technical information and provide a database which can be accessible to intelligence agencies with permission.
Mishra: Why did this organization shut down? do you know?
Vipul: Yes, because it is vulnerable to store all information at one place, there was a chance that it could be hacked or accessed by wrong people. Also our hiring at higher ranks with bypassing the eligibility criteria was made an issue for corruption inside the system.
Mishra: Ok. Both answers are wrong.
Vipul: What?
Mishra: NATI was formed to cause the damage to information storage and delivery system. They wanted this all data to be accumulated so that it can be stolen easily. And they were almost successful. So they shut the NATI with false allegations..
Vipul: No, How can it be true?
Mishra: It is true, We have corrupt men just like we have honest people. Remember Rao? He was from Cipher bureau. What did he do? sell information. You killed him but still there are people who want to get the data that you coded.
Vipul: What?
Mishra: Yes, they haven't decode the data that you coded, so they were restless. Once they decode the data, they will kill you, just like they killed other coders. I hope you remember we are only 4 remaining..
Vipul: I can't believe this.. This is a nightmare.
Mishra: Not yet.. Vipul.. There is some connection between you and the insurgents.. that S.K. Patil had found out. So he had passed orders to kill you. What relation do you have Vipul with those terrorists?
Vipul: You killed S.K.Patil, Maybe you know it better.
Mishra: I will tell you my side if you tell me yours. And I may even help you.
Vipul: Trust me.. I dont know. I am completely honest with my nation and my work.. Trust me.
Mishra: I trust you brother, but now if you go outside, no one will. I want you to tell me everything. Every single thing.
[VIPUL TAKES A MOMENT]
Vipul: I belong to Kashmir.
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