Chapter 150
Shocking Truths
"Saumya why is it taking so long?
Rudra whined impatiently sitting in her home with Bhavya and Ranveer. Saumya had cracked the online vault of Devendra Kapoor's secret world and was going through every file trying to find something of worth and value to them.
"I don't want Gauri or Om unnecessarily going through any more circuses. They have already endured a lot.
Ranveer was a part of Om and Gauri's trial right from the word go, while he did sometimes get irritated at the simplicity that Om exuberated, yet he acknowledged that Om was indeed the kindest of them all. Bhavya was observing the interaction between Rudra and Saumya. The kind of authority he exerted on Saumya did not sit well with her.
"She is trying Rudra you are a bit too demanding.
Bhavya looked red with irritation. Saumya scowled at Rudra and conveyed her objection in her scathing stare, before mumbling her inaudible frustration.
"What can this be?
Saumya scanned a series of endless numbers in the document. Ranveer looked at the screen while Rudra remained distant from the screen as well as Saumya. He sneaked a glance at Bhavya from the corner of his eyes. She was still sporting a furrow on her forehead.
"Something about these numbers screams familiarity.
Bhavya's little furrow between her eyebrows resembled Saumya or vice versa. Rudra walked to their small shelf of precious memories. He picked up a picture which had the entire family and tried to determine the similarities and dissimilarities between the children and their parents. Saumya was a replica of her father while Bhavya resembled her mom. Even as a rising teen she had a formidable frown on her forehead. A low chuckle escaped his lips as he thought that some people are born to terrorize. The child in him kicked in as he gave Bhavya in the picture a snort, successfully catching everyone's attention. He covered up his snort in his fake cough, but Saumya glowered at him and gestured him to put the picture frame back where it was. He immediately complied with her silent command. Bhavya stared at him too with displeasure.
"I am sorry. He mumbled to no one in particular. When Bhavya left to get something from her room, Rudra heaved a sigh of relief.
"I have a feeling that your sister wants to skin me alive and then make a backpack for herself with my hide.
Ranveer snickered at Rudra's comment.
"We were together in our graduation bhaiya.
Saumya sounded apologetic.
"Yeah? Great Bachpan ki mohabbat.
He snickered yet again and Saumya swallowed her protest, there was no point in trying to mask something that Rudy displayed without a second thought.
"These are the number of Mauritian Rupee deposits in his account in Mauritius. We were able to extract the details of his account through mutual sharing of intelligence. The account is not in his name but in Mrs. Kapoor, Tia's mom's name. She carries a Mauritian passport too. From his phone records, we can see that it is he, who operates the account.
"She is a British Citizen!
It was news to Rudra. Britain and Mauritius both allowed Dual citizenship.
"So the money from his illegal land acquisitions and his all corrupt activities in government goes round and round many times before coming back to him in India. He sends it manually to the USA through agents. I have three of them in judicial remand. In the USA they are deposited in the accounts of three companies that have been registering a good amount of net profit with very few sales. These companies were legit startup companies owned by resident Indians, but Mr. Kapoor bought them at an insane price and is keeping them somewhat functional, but their sales have dwindled tremendously in past two years. These are the companies that keep buying some or the other service from Tia's corporation. They deposit the money directly into her accounts, and thus the black money comes back into circulation. The activity has increased multifold since past two months, especially past thirty days. An anonymous tip alerted the authorities Ranveer told Rudra.
"Then there is his pedophilia ring in Mauritius. Mrs. Kapoor has a small furniture import-export business to mask the money influx. Every piece of furniture is overbilled but never sold. It is rebilled up to four times and then sold by the employees for their profit. They change the SKU number or inventory number on the bill every time. From Mauritius, the money goes into stock trading in the UK and stays there. I extracted all the information from the storekeeper and some others involved in bookkeeping for Mrs. Kapoor. The storekeeper was murdered two days back. I am trying to get all the investigation developments of that case.
"Bhavya di did you use the tactics like that the officer in Singapore.
"What tactics? Bhavya snickered at his juvenile question.
"Rudy we all have our methods of gathering info. We don't share them with the public.
Ranveer sentence was cut midway by a loud gasp from Saumya as she clasped both her hands on her mouth. Rudra peeked to see what she was watching so horrified, and he instinctively shut the laptop. Those were po*nographic videos of children under fifteen. She shuddered with disgust, and for the first time, it struck her what all Bhavya came across in her day to day life. Hiding her face in her palms, she wailed loudly.
"Shit that was gruesome. Her words were punctuated and muffled by her sobs and groans.
"Someone must just kill these people. They don't deserve to live.
She clutched Bhavya's shoulder and innocently urged her to deliver justice as if that was easy. Bhavya tried to reach to her, but she had become extraordinarily jumpy and sensitive. The minute Bhavya touched her cheek she removed herself to the other corner of the room, looking blank she succumbed to the floor and hugged herself, rocking back and forth. Ranveer was unable to tune into this sudden outburst, and he just stared at her wondering about the video. It had to be explicit and extremely graphic for a person like Saumya to react like that. She was not a ninny. He switched on the laptop and was appalled beyond limits. He had lots of experience working in the crime branch since so many years, exposed to a lot of absurdity and inhumanity but what he saw, was another level. When he was finding it difficult to dissociate himself from the video and look at it objectively, Saumya was a girl never exposed to all this.
Rudra went numb as he watched the extreme sickness. He looked across at Saumya whose glare was fixed onto her childhood picture. She looked disconnected and as white as chalk, her mouth wide open and frozen in an expression of shock. Suddenly she held on to her stomach tightly and then rushed to the washroom. Bhavya followed and reached just in time thankfully to stop Saumya from closing the door of the restroom.
"Saumya are you alright? Saumya could barely nod in response as she collapsed next to the toilet bowl, heaving and panting. Desperate to throw up the contents that hammered in her skull and she thought probably emptying the stomach would mean the same. Her insides churned and twisted till she felt a knot rising and she threw up all that she had eaten since morning. Her body trembled, and she felt hot. Bhavya had never seen her like that not even when their parents had died. When she tried to hold her hair away from her face, Saumya pushed Bhavya away and stood in the shower, while she tried to gulp in shampoo to get rid of the putrid feeling in her mouth. Bhavya wanted to drag her out from the shower and threw the Shampoo out of her reach, but she panic-stricken and her muscles twitched and quivered. Saumya kept mumbling meaningless words. Rudra and Ranveer waited outside the washroom, they did not want to invade their privacy or embarrass them. When Rudra heard her wail again, he could not stop and entered the washroom. He saw Saumya scrambled to a corner under the shower and Bhavya struggling with her. He tried to pull Bhavya away from Saumya, but the water was running at maximum heat. He turned the shower to cold immediately as he saw Bhavya and Saumya both turning red.
"Ranveer we need a doctor call Bhabhi or Priyanka. He screamed while he tried to hold Saumya and Bhavya down in cold stream.
"I am coming in Rudy. Ranveer warned before entering in.
It did not take Ranveer to put two and two together as he pulled Bhavya to her feet, she looked far better than Saumya.
"She stood under that hot water for far too long Ranveer. Ranveer without a word just glanced at saumya's red face and exposed skin. Rudra still held her forcibly under cold water though she was shivering now. He was online with Priyanka who was already on her way.
"Rudra I am cold It was difficult to understand what she said because her teeth chattered incessantly. She tried to step out of the frigid stream but was held in place by Rudra and backed by the wall.
"Bhaiya keep her in cold water for another ten minutes if the redness subsides we will not have anything to worry. I will soon be there.
"What is she saying?
Bhavya was getting impatient. "Should we take her to the hospital?
"Do you have ice?
Rudy did not respond to her question, and before she could say anything else, Ranveer had already brought Ice in a small bucket. Rudra gestured towards Bhavya who had a sore neck. Her right side of the torso had taken the brunt of the hot stream. Wrapping the ice in a towel, Ranveer put it on her neck.
"I am alright.
She got away from him and asked Rudra again for Priyanka.
"Wrap yourself in this ice. You won't want to endure the pain of blisters. She will be fine I promise you.
Bhavya could hear that Oberoi authority ring clearly in his tone, something similar to Shivay though not as indifferently exerted. Bhavya took the ice pack silently and put it on her sore skin. It did feel good.
Edited by samiksha1993 - 7 years ago
