Excellent post as always, Sabs.
I only have one question ... why will Rudra hate Paro for abandoning him? She has never made any promises to him ever, she has always said that she will never marry him ... and that she believes in Tejawat implicitly ... she has not changed her stance even once. It is Rudra who seems to have changed in his feelings towards Paro.
My bigger fear therefore is that Rudra will lose his job after all .. and that is what he will hate Paro for.
And that will be Paro's repentance ... that she never believed him about Tejawat and he was right all along. And that Rudra saved her from a fate far worse than what she suffered at his hands. For that, I'm guessing the missing Nandini will appear to reinforce exactly what Rudra saved Paro from. But it will be too late, he will have lost his job and there will be nothing Paro can do any more to save it. (I'm ignoring the very obvious loophole of Paro's signature being false testimony, and hence pretty worthless)
If that happens, it's not going to be pretty to watch ... so I hope I'm wrong and Rudra doesn't lose his job. Because I fear that will truly unleash the animal in Rudra ... that the woman he loves, made him lose the one thing he loves equally, if not more than her.