Chapter 14

Sid raced his bike in the direction that van had went but, could not catch it. What worse was he could not even got a glimpse of the van anywhere around him. It looked like the van had disappeared in to thin air. He had searched for the van almost at every corner of the area. But, only received disappointment. 

A couple of hours had passed but Sid still could not find Roli's whereabouts, despite of his continuous searching. He felt frustrated and helpless as he got worried for roli. He then drove to the hospital where roli's driver was being admitted, to get any clue about the people who abducted roli. 

Sid's friends Akhil and Rohan were waiting for him in the hospital corridor. Sid reached them hurriedly and they all entered the room. 

"Who were those people?" Sid directly jumped on to the topic as he walked upto the bed, the driver was resting on. 

"I.. I don't know" being nervous as hell, the driver stammered. Perhaps, he was too scared of what would jamnalal do to him when he got to know about his daughter's kidnapping. 

"Can you atleast recognise them? Any clue to find them?" Suppressing his anger, Sid queried. 

"No.. they were all wearing masks. I.. could not see their faces" driver slowly replied. 

"What the fcuk!" Sid lost his cool as he had not gotten any clue. 

"Sid, relax" Akhil held Sid's shoulder as he tried to calm him down. 

Coming out of the room, Sid settled down in a chair, hopelessly. His heartbeat was not at a normal rate. The thought of not being able to protect his Roli was making him feel dead. 

"Are you alright?" Watching him broken like this made his friends worried for him. They have never seen him without that cheerful smile on his face. 

"Where she might be?" Sid mumbled, holding his head in his palms. 

"Roli will be fine, Sid" Akhil tried to comfort his friend. 

"I think Roli's kidnapping might involve some political issues" Rohan spoke up, surprising Sid and Akhil. 

"What do you mean?" Sid rose his head and frowned at Rohan. 

"I mean Roli's father is a politician in power and he might have so many rivals in and out politics. And it's obvious that no ordinary people can kidnap jamnalal's daughter. So, I guess there might be a strong force behind this kidnapping coz going against jamnalal is not that simple" Rohan explained. 

"He is already worried sick and you are adding fuel to fire" Akhil stared at Rohan for increasing Sid's already tensed state. 

"I'm just stating the facts. If my guess is right then it would not be safe for Sid to be involved in this matter" Rohan retorted.

"I don't care if it's safe or not. My Roli is in danger and I should bring her back safe" Sid stood up and stated.  

"But, like you just said if it really involves political rivalry then I should directly ask the person himself" Sid's words made his friends confused.

But, before they could react, Sid had already turned around and started to leave. It took a couple of moments for his friends to realise what he meant and they hurried after him to stop him from taking any impulsive step. 

As expected Sid stopped his bike in front of dwivedi mansion after few minutes of drive. Akhil and Rohan, who were following him till now, tried to stop him from entering the house. But, Sid was adamant enough to do things as he wish and his friends could only follow him silently. 

- Dwivedi Mansion -

By now every body in the house had got to know about Roli's abduction. Meena was fixed near matarani statue, crying and praying for her daughter's safety. While jamnalal was bursting on the bodyguards for not doing their work properly. 

Sid entered the hall and directly walked to jamnalal. While his friends stood at his back, nervously. 

"Where is Roli?" Sid asked looking at jamnalal directly, making others surprised. 

Jamnalal glanced at Sid in surprise. He knew who Sid was and what was his relationship with Roli. Though Roli never mentioned it directly in the fear of her father's reaction but, he could see the love in his daughter's eyes whenever she talked about Sid. And he even made a secret investigation on Sid to assure himself of his daughter well being and got relaxed after knowing Sid's background. 

"Who is behind this?" Receiving no response from jamnalal, Sid asked again.

"Roli will return safely. You don't need to get yourself involved in this" jamnalal answered, calmly. 

"I will get involved in everything that's related to Roli" Sid replied, stubbornly. 

"This is not as simple as you think. My people went to search for roli. She will be fine" jamnalal tried to explain. 

"I don't care about what your people would do. Just tell me who is behind this if you know. I will bring roli back home safe" Sid was adamant to his point. 

"Listen, I can understand your concern for Roli. But, it's not safe to get involved. If something happens to you then I can never answer my daughter" jamnalal said with concern. His daughter, who never used to go out alone, had started to go only after meeting Sid. It showed how much she trusted him and jamnalal had trust on his daughter's belief. Thus, he did not want to drag Sid in to this danger and risk his life. 

"And if I sit quiet now without doing anything then I can never face roli" Sid responded, fiercely. Jamnalal had to sigh, witnessing Sid's adamancy. 

"We don't know anything about the people behind this yet. I will let you know if I get any information" jamnalal said, realising Sid's concern for his daughter. 

"Whoever it is, I will not leave them" Sid promised to himself and left the dwivedi mansion. 

Both Sid and jamnalal kept on searching for Roli in their own ways. A week passed by but they still could not find any information about Roli. Sid was losing his patience by each passing second. 

Frustrated, Sid again went to dwivedi mansion after a week. When he entered the house, he heard jamnalal speaking on phone "don't you dare to do anything to my daughter". 

"I'm just planning to get your daughter married to my son and nothing else" the person from other side, spoke with an evil grin. 

"So that you will always keep on supporting me" the person finished and ended the call before jamnalal could react. 

"Who is that?" Sid inquired curiously as he finally got the person who kidnapped his Roli. 

Jamnalal turned to Sid with tensed face and slowly replied "Rana Thakur, head of the village near Bijaipur. He wants to nominat for election this time from Delhi. He had asked me to support him but I denied. Now he is taking it out by kidnapping Roli". 

"Then why did you even denied to support him?" Sid was enraged as he thought if jamnalal had supported that person then he would not have kidnapped roli. 

"Support him? He is an evil person. Public will only have to suffer if he becomes leader" jamnalal stated his concern. 

"What was he saying on phone?" Sid asked. 

"He wants to get Roli married to his son so that he could blackmail me to support him" jamnalal sighed as he felt helpless. 

"He will do that only if he stays alive" Sid's jawline got tightened as he grew angry after listening to what jamnalal had just said. 

"You don't know anything about him. He is so vicious. I'm sending my people to that village, you just don't do anything" watching Sid's anger filled eyes, jamnalal reminded yet again. 

"I'm going to Bijapur and will return with roli" Sid said determined. Then turning around, he left before jamnalal could say anything. 

And in no time, Sid was already on his way to Bijapur in his car. It took nearly half a day for him to reach the village. By the time he entered Bijapur, it was midnight but Sid continued to drive without taking a break. 

"I'm coming, Roli" Sid mumbled as he felt some strange feeling soon after he entered Bijaipur village. It was not an uneasy feeling but rather it felt pleasant. By that Sid realized that he was near his Roli. 

Sid was immersed in his thoughts and did not notice the Bullock cart coming from opposite side. Being a village, it did not have multiple lanes of road and had only a single lane which could not fit in more than one vehicle at a time. By the time sid's attention caught on to it, it was late to step on the brake. But, still he could manage to move his car to side to avoid hitting the Bullock cart. When Sid's car got off the road, it got hit to the tree at side which made his head to hit the steering hardly.