BUS HIJACK
Director: Ishwar SIngh
Story and Screenplay : Christebelle D'Souza
Scene 1
At a bank, the customers are shocked to see the staff of the bank become unconscious one after another. A man dials a number, informs someone about the situation inside the bank and asks them to come inside. Soon 2 gunned men come inside the bank, passes one gun to the man who had called them from inside and start locking all the customers into one room and also take away their cell phones so that no one dares to call up the police. They had come with the intention of robbing the bank.
Scene 2
A pregnant lady is seen coming inside the bank to withdraw some money. When she reaches, she finds many people lying unconscious on the floor. She decides to call up the police. The robbers noticed her from their hiding place. One of them wanted to kill her before she calls the police but the one leading them prevents him from doing so. Instead he orders them to leave before the police arrived.
Scene 3
CID team arrives. ACP thanks the pregnant lady for behaving like a responsible citizen. On the other side, Salunke and Tarika check the people who were lying unconscious on the floor. According to the doctors they were given some sort of a drug. The possibility of spreading the drug through gas was ruled out as otherwise others too might have been affected by it, which wasn't the case. Sachin tells ACP that there were some cheques that were submitted the same day which meant that there were some customers in the bank. However, they were not to be found anywhere. Also, the CCTV footage of the day was missing from the database. They check the locker rooms as there were some noise that was coming from inside it. They unlock it and find many people locked inside the vault. The money too was missing from the room.
After some time the staff members regain their senses and explain the attack. There were 3 men, not even masked but with guns. They inform them that they all had eaten sweets in the morning as Manohar, one of their staffs working at the canteen had given them all sweets to celebrate the birth of his daughter. Pankaj goes to the canteen but finds Manohar lying unconscious at the canteen with the packet of sweets lying all around him. It seems Manohar too was unaware of the drug being injected into the sweets. Salunke checks the sweets and confirms the presence of a strong sleeping drug.
Scene 4
CID team enquires about the 3 men outside the bank. The shopkeeper at the corner of the road tells them that he had seen 3 men running towards a car parked at the other side of the road but the car was towed away. So they hurried and took a bus instead. However, he didn't note down the number of the bus.
Scene 5
Inside the bus, the 4 men ( 3 who robbed the bank and one who was waiting in the car outside the bank) had their guns pointed at the passengers. They had ordered the driver to keep driving till they ask them to stop. When one of the passengers tried to protest, they shot him.
Scene 6
Abhijeet and his team visit the control room for BEST buses. He inquires about the buses that pass through the road in front of the bank between 10.45 to 11.00 (i.e. around the time when the robbers took a bus from the same place). The officer at the control room tells them that there are usually 5 buses that travel through that area during the mentioned time. Abhijeet asks the phone numbers of the driver and conductor of the 5 buses. They try to contact each driver and conductor and find that the driver and conductor of bus no 321 were unreachable. On further interrogation, they come to know that the concerned bus had not reached its next stoppage either. This confirms that the bus that was hijacked was bus no 321. Abhijeet asks the officer to inform every bus driver and conductor to inform them about the concerned bus as soon as they notice it somewhere.
Scene 7
Here, inside the bus, the leader (among the 4 robbers) try to contact their boss but there was hardly any response from the other side. Finally when the boss receives his call, the boss asks them to take the Ahmedabad Highway.
Scene 8
ACP with his team visit the place where the cars that were towed from the concerned location were kept. They check the towed car and find some guns in the car's dicky. They decide to find the details about the car's owner.
Scene 9
A driver of a BEST bus notices bus no 321 on its way. The driver decides to follow the bus and thus asks the passengers to leave. The conductor informs CID. When the robbers realize that the bus was following them, they shoot the driver and the driver loses his control over the bus. Before it could meet with an accident, CID officer Dushyant comes and saves the driver.
Scene 10
ACP visits the owner of the towed car. The car belonged to an old man who was restricted to a wheelchair. On interrogation, they come to know that the man's son had left with the car. They see the photo of the son, Angad. It was the leader among the robbers. The father tries to call him up, but in vain.
Scene 11
Inside the bus, the conductor tries to protest but the robbers try to throw him out of the bus. They see CID officer Dushyant and Nikhil following the bus in one jeep and also some other officers behind them in another car. They decide not to harm the conductor for now and take him inside. Angad tells his team mates that their "Boss" was still not receiving his calls. He notices some pins on the road and asks the driver to stop the car. They ask the conductor and a passenger to go down and clear the path.
Once the road was cleared, the bus once again starts on its journey. In the meantime, Nikhil had reached the terrace of the bus. When the robbers realizethis, they fire at Nikhil and Nikhil falls to the ground, injured. However, they decide to continue following the bus. The robbers now throw the conductor out of the bus, so as to stop the CID team from following them any further. The conductor is thrown out of the bus and before he comes beneath CID's car...
Continued in next episode.
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