Part 8

Abhijeet and Daya are in their jeep with Kaveri and Lavanya at the back seat. Abhijeet and Daya are unusually quite as they are still thinking about Shruti’s unexpected behaviour. When Abhijeet checks that the girls are busy with their talks, Abhijeet seized a chance to talk to Daya.

Abhijeet – “Daya tujhe lagta hai ki Viren ki maur road accident main nahi hui..par kuch aur hi chakkar hai?”
Daya – “Haan boss. Kuch toh hai warna Shruti aise toh reach nahi karti..zaroor wohh in choriyoin ke bare mein bhi kuch janti hai.”

Abhijeet is deeply thinking. When Abhijeet doesn’t say anything for a while, Daya looks at him to find him worried.

Daya – “Kya hua?”Abhijeet – “Tumhe theek lagta hai agar hum…I mean main Viren ki maut ke bare mein investigate karun?”

They both look at each other but no one speaks.

**

At Pune,
Daya, Abhijeet, Kaveri and Lavanya reached Rajeev’s office, which they were supposed to be using as theirs for the time they were in Pune. They were met on the gate by former CID Special Bureau officer Pratap who now worked in Pune and was asked to help CID mumbai. However, he was told that they are investigating about Viren. He had no idea of their true case.

Rajeev’s office was very big and had almost 30 more officers working inside on different cases all suprivised by Rajeev. They all greeted the 4 and then Pratap took them to Rajeev’s cabin. Outside the cabin sat a very old man nodding and murmuring to himself, not even paying attention to the visitors.

Daya – “Yeh aadmi kaun hai?”
Pratap – “Ye Rampal chacha hain – Rajeev sir ke Peon aur ab aap logoin ke.”

Daya figured something seriously suspicious about him and signaled this to Abhijeet who too had an uneasy feeling about the man. Then Pratap, took them inside the cabin. It was huge with one big oval table in the center divided into six working spaces by glass dividers. Each working space had a fully equipped computer with a chair to sit on while working on the computer.
Book – shelves were lined all along the 5 walls containing large amount of files, record papers and books. Pratap called the Peon in to get him introduced.

Pratap – “Rampal Chacha, yeh CID Mumbai se aaye hain. Yeh cabin ab inka hai jab tak ye log yahan hain aur aap dhyaan rakhna ki inhe koi takleef na ho.”

Rampal bowed a little and then to everyone’s surprise, asked –

Rampal – “Ye log Rajeev sir wale case par kaam karenge kya?”

Our CID is taken aback and Pratap is annoyed. Rampal Chacha had a very irritating habit of poking his nose. Somehow he knew all work that was on with all the officers and their cases. Rajeev found him amusing and so never scolded him. And so no one else could do that either.

Pratap – “nahi par isse aapko kya? Aap bas in logoin ki baat sunna aur khayal rakhna ki inhe koi takleef na ho.”

Rampal – “Khayal hi toh rakhkar pooch raha hoon…us case se jude log bahut khatarnaak hain. Wohh kisi ko zinda nahi chodenge. Us case ko bhool jao warna –“

Abhijeet got angry.

Abhijeet – “warna…warna kya haan?”

Suddenly, the door opens and enter…(surprise) ACP Prithviraj (Rajeev Khandelwal).

ACP Prithviraj – “warna…arre aap logoin ko aaye abhi 1 ghanta bhi nahi hua aur abhi se marna maarna shuru? Chacha chalo aap bahar baitho.”

CID Mumbai is surprised to see ACP Prithviraj. Pratap, however wasn’t surprised as ACP Prithviraj had already arrived here the last day.

Daya – “sir aap?”
Abhijeet – “aap yahan kaise sir?”
They both come forward and shake hands with ACP Prithviraj. Kaveri and Lavanya, who didn’t know ACP Prithviraj, stand back, see what all is happening and smile.

ACP Prithviraj – “wahi purane Abhijeet aur Daya! Glad to meet you. Main bhi yahan usi kaam se aaya hoon jis kaam ke liye aap – case solve karne.”

Then he turns to Pratap.

ACP Prithviraj – “Pratap, jo call list mangwayi thi…dekho aa gayi hai toh le aao.”

Pratap nods and leaves. Once Pratap is out,

ACP Prithviraj – “Pratap ko nahi pata ki tum log yahan kis case ke liye aaye ho par mujhe pata hai aur mujhe headquarters ne tumhari help karne ko bheja hai.
Acha, toh…pehle main bata doon ki main iss case ke bare mein kya jaanta hoon.”

Saying so, he took a piece of paper lying on the table and scribbled on it for quite few minutes and then passed it to Abhijeet who was standin just next to him.

Abhijeet – “sir ye kya –“Before Abhijeet could complete the sentence,

ACP Prithviraj – “Padho bhi” (very silently)

Also ACP Prithviraj signaled him not to speak. Abhijeet followed and quietly read the paper and the others looked completely blank and stared at each other and then towards ACP Prithviraj who was perfectly fine with the strange passing of messages and just gave them a huge smile.
He then went upto Lavanya and Kaveri and introduced himself to them while Abhijeet read the paper.

The paper read –
“tum sab ke computers par tumhare naam ki slips rakhi hain. Apne computers par baith kar, C Drive me stored ek hidden file hai – ‘robber’. Read that.
DONOT speak of the real case openly. Because if someone is eavesdropping, which I am sure someone is, then we wouldn’t want them to hear all our discussions. Remember, we shall never speak of the case within this office. Whenever we need to discuss about the case, pass a slip mentioning time and name of a restaurant to meet in..however mention a date also BUT WE WILL REACH THE PLACE AT THE SPECIFIED TIME ON THE SAME DAY regardless of the date.
The Head Quarters suspect a spy in the office and I am here to catch him.
After you are done reading, pass this on to others. Once all of you are done reading, pass it back to me.”

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