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.
1st January
09:25 IST
Vipul Mahajani's Residence,
NAVI MUMBAI
Conrad: Please Madam, If there is anything you are hiding from, then that might be dangerous.
Vipul's Mom: There are things which had kept us apart, but I trust Vipul, he can do nothing wrong. I never saw my son in him, but he definitely believes me as his mother. I am going to tell you the truth, but I am sure this has no effect on him.
Conrad: Please tell us about his childhood.
Mom: He used to live in a Kashmiri pandit family in Kashmir Valley. During riots, this family along with many others were migrated. But this kid was seperated from his famliy. My husband was on duty there and tried to search his family. He was 9 year old kid. My husband was a very emotional being, in the tense situation of the state, he felt it was wrong to leave him at the camps. So he brought him home. It was just 6 months after we had lost our own son, he was also 8 years old..That made my husband emotionally attach to the kid. His name was Krishna Kumar, we gave him our identity and named him Vipul.. His all records were managed accordingly. It wasn't all legal though. But it was for a constructive cause.
Conrad: That we will find out. How constructive or destructive it is.
[PHONE RINGS]
Conrad: Hello
Rishab: Sir, He is here.
Conrad: Who?
Rishab: Vipul, he is here at office. But he seems so normal.
Conrad: Wait, I will come.
[PHONE CALL ENDS]
Conrad: Samidha, How should I believe that you didn't know about this?
Samidha: Did you find Vipul?
Conrad: We have him in the office, but we would interrogate with him thoroughly. No one can talk to him before that.
Samidha: This is ridiculous, did you forget his service to the country, how can you just find him suspicious because he belongs to Kashmir.
Conrad: That's not the reason, We have proofs, a video of detective who investigated S.K. Patil's murder has substantial evidence against Vipul, that detective also dies and now Singh's murder. And don't forget, you are appointed as his cover, protector, don't intervene our investigation.
Samidha: I am talking to you as his wife, and I am not intervening any investigation. The problem is you are just following people, and he is the one investigating.
Conrad: Fine, When the interrogation is over, and if we observe he is not guilty, he will be back home.. but only after the interrogation is over.
Samidha: Fine.
1st January
11:30 IST
Vipul Mahajani's Residence,
NAVI MUMBAI
Conrad: You know what I am going to ask, so speak Vipul.
Vipul: Mahesh had given me a watch at JNPT before leaving for his last mission. And he had told me, If I die in the oceans, this watch won't work so keep it, give it to me when I ask you for it.
Conrad: So?
Vipul: So when I saw that letter, I reached JNPT.
Conrad: But how did you know if Mahesh wrote it?
Vipul: Mr. Singh was Mahesh actually, after he was declared dead, he still worked for someone in the agency and had joined with a different identity. He had contacted me a month before, to inform about breach in intelligence server and leakage of information. Mahesh helped me stop Rao from dealing information.
Conrad: Wait, So Mahesh killed Rao?
Vipul: Ahh.. Yes. Later we thought the information is safe, but we realised that its out in the open still. We were 14 members who coded the information, 10 members were already dead suspiciously. We were only one who knew that what information we had coded, so once they decode the information, they kill the coder, so that no one has a clue what information is leaked. Last month one more coder died. That means some one is still acquiring information and decoding it, either by self or by help of the coders.
Conrad: Wait, Don't tell me Mahabharat, tell me in short. What happened to Singh? or Mahesh whatever.
Vipul: He had replaced his identity as one of the coder, and he knew the risks, but he thought it's the easiest way to reach killers.
Conrad: You will be killed last, as you were the best.
Vipul: I hope so, but I have a plan..
Conrad: First tell me, where have you been last night? after Singh's death.
Vipul: I met Mishra, he told me everything, he was closely working with Singh or Mahesh.
Conrad: Did you ask him if he killed S.K.Patil?
Vipul: Yes, Now this is a different story, There is someone who is trying to protect me, except samidha and you guys. Because when Patil ordered to kill me, Mishra interrupted and tried to convince him that I am innocent. He also went to meet Patil at his place where he found Patil lying dead already.
Conrad: I got it. The one who wants the information is unable to decode it, so he wants you alive. Maybe he killed Patil for the same reason. But can you help us find Mishra?
Vipul: I just dived into waters at JNPT, I fainted and woke up at some place in front of Mishra, and after discussions, he drugged me, and I woke up at the Uran highway, I directly came here after that.
Conrad: Shall I trust you?
Vipul: I will prove my innocence, but I have to die for it.
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2nd January
07:25 IST
Vipul Mahajani's Residence,
NAVI MUMBAI
Samidha opens the door to receive the milk and newspaper at door.
She takes it, keeps the milk to warm and starts reading the newspaper..
While reading the newspaper she finds a news that catches her eyes..
A Man jumps by the Worli Sea Link
Yesterday around 9:30 PM, a man stops his taxi on the bridge saying that he wants to urinate, driver refused to do so. But the man insisted to stop saying that he is diabetic and would have to relieve himself soon. Once the taxi stopped, this man gets out of it and jumps from the bridge. This incidence was reported to Police quickly by the taxi driver. Police with the fire department and coastguards tried searching the man. Amid darkness the man was not found.
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