Suvan FF- Dangerous Trail (Chap28 updated on 10/09)

INDEX

Chap1 -->Mistaken Identity(Pg1)

Chap2 --> Perceptions (Pg2)

Chap 3--> Revelations & Learnings (Pg 2)

Chap 4-->Seeing her in Action (Pg 3)

Chap 5--> Bonds undefined (Pg 4)

Chap 6-->Gory Alleyways (Pg-5)

Chap 7-->Intimate encounters(Pg 6)

Chap 8-->Sorry Always(pg 7)

Chap 9-->Heartbeats(Pg-7)

Chap 10->Unwanted guests(pg 8)

Chap 11 --> Warm embrace(pg 9)

Chap 12-->Eyes and Ears on the ground(pg 10)

Chap 13-->Long Way Ahead(pg 11)

Chap -14--->Volcano(Pg 13)

Chap-15--> Lost in Dunes(Pg 15)

Chap-16-->Realization(Pg 15)

Chap 17-->Clearing Skies(Pg 17)

Chap 18--> Equation (Pg 17)

Chap 19-->Revealed (Pg 19)

Chap 20-->Timeless Memoirs(Pg 19)

Chap 21-->Footprints(Pg 20)

Chap 22-->Darkness (Pg 21)

Chap 23-->Red(Pg 21)

Chap 24-->Time(Pg 22)

Chap 25-->Bonds(Pg 23)

Chap 26-->Celebration(Pg 24)

Chap 27-->Kiss(Pg 25)

Chap 28-->Discovery (Pg 25)

Chap1- Mistaken Identity

Shravan Malhotra looked at his reflection in the mirror andappreciated himself for still looking the old “handsome Malhotra” as the pretty girls of his college used to call him. He wanted to go overboard but in thelast moment he had decided to keep himself in check because after all it was aparty at the DGP’s place and he was a little apprehensive as to why all of asudden he held the party and he an SP(Superintendent of Police) from one of the lesser known districts of Karnataka had been invited on such a short notice.The phone rang bringing Shravan out of his thoughts as he looked out to see hisofficial pick up had arrived. He took a last look at his getup a simple coffeecoloured high neck pull over and faded blue jeans complete with a black jacket on top, he looked like SRK is what he thought and smiling walked out of the quarters. The DGP’s official bungalow, had a well-maintained garden at theentrance and Shravan noticed that there were not too many guests. Most of themwere unknown faces apart from a few senior officers.  The female presence was very limited asofficers were invited solo and not with family, so Shravan was a littledisappointed. As he walked to the bar to order himself a drink, he noticed apretty lady stirring her glass of vodka absent mindedly. He noticed she hadsharp features, milky white skin and beautiful hair. She was dressed very formally wearing a blue chikankari kurta paired with blue coloured jeans. Shravan was unable to decide whether she is accompanying one of the officers here or she is a lady officer.

“Do I have the pleasure of providing company to the beautiful lady” Shravan finally asked earning him a glare. “ I was not interested in company but rather a little deliberation on my own but looks like it is not to be” she replied. As she turned to face him Shravan was for a moment disoriented looking at the perfect face adorned by the curls that fell in swathes across her back and lovingly adorned her face delicately like a frame. Her face was devoid of makeup but had a natural glow as her thin lips spread in a thin line to show her irritation. Shravan was lost in the lady’sbeauty when she clicked her fingers infront of him. He came back to his presentstate and quickly said “Can I get the beautiful lady a drink at least”. To thisthe lady replied “Such a cheesy line to use on all ladies” and she startedwalking off when Shravan said “No this line is for you , I have other lines forother beautiful ladies” to which he thought she would not reply but in a secondshe turned and replied “good try but its still cheesy”. Shravan really wantedto look at her pretty face as he saw her getting lost in the crowd and he ranhis fingers through his silky hair promising to search her out. Soon he wasdiscreetly called inside by his boss to one of the inner rooms of the house.There were quite a few officers there and this is the first time he noted thathe had his batchmate Aneesh Rai joining in the room. Shravan was quite happy tosee him there, at least a known face in a so-so secret mission. The manaddressing the small group of 16 people was the NCB director, Mr. Akash Nayakand he was accompanied by Mr.V Subramanian(Zonal Director, NCB Chennai).

Narco Terrorism is not something new to the world of crime.Narcotics and terrorism have for years have been having a strong connection astheir need for each other have brought these too unlikely allies together. Theillegal drug trade needs security and people to protect their trade whileterrorism needs money to fund their illegal activities. Owing to India’sgeographic location you all must be aware that it has emerged as one of thehigh activity transit routes. India falls in Golden Crescent and GolderTriangle and the recent activities have shown that the activities in Myanmarand Bangladesh have shifted closer to the Indian borders to take advantage ofthe proximity to the Indian transit routes. All our internal security issueshave been fanned by this illegal drug money. Post Dawood era the concentrationof the kingpins has been outside India with their intermediaries controllingthe trade in India. Recently we had caught in the Karnataka and Andhra border atruckload of shoes. Based on tip off we had raided and on a thorough searchrevealed nothing initially but a careful look at the shoes we found that thedrugs were hidden in shoes , carefully tailor made and concealed. We arepursuing the trail as the news has immediately caused the show maker and therelated people to go on hiding. The question is these are normal raidsconducted by NCB but why this secret meeting here for which you folks have beenhandpicked by your state. Some clues have given us a hunch that one of thestate ministers of Karnataka has been directly involved in this trade and isprobably the new emerging kingpin of India. This is a hunch, but we have notgot any evidence or link still. This network seems to have spread its tentaclesquite deep inside the Indian subcontinent from Karachi till Dhaka, from Kabultill Jaffna . They operate in a very corporate style where individual regionsmanage their own trade while the routes, transit, pricing and supply acrosscountries and continents are managed by the kingpin. Apparently, they havestarted funding the insurgent groups in India and the recent attacks in Gadchiroliwas funded by this group. This is a very large and confidential operation, sowe do not have lot of people involved but we have selected the best peopleidentified by your state and each one of you will be part of team of two whowill be provided with very specific targets and you are supposed to follow thetrail and gather intelligence. Remember this is a covert operation and you willdirectly report to DGP and NCB heads with updates.

The NCB directors finished their briefing and then mentionedthat NCB officers will assist them with all the detailed information andmanpower. For now the team will be assisted by 3 NCB IOs(Intelligence Officer)Shasank Trivedi, Saheb Awasthi and Suman Tiwari. Shravan looked up at the nameannounced and turned around to find the lady he has tried to flirt with earlierwas none other than IO Suman Tiwari. With her hair tied up in a bun with thestrands neatly pinned on the back of the head with hairpins she looked all madefor the role she is to play. Shravan realized that he was ogling at her andimmediately closed his mouth as Suman gave him a sideway glance and walkedahead to take the team through all the information that they needed to startoff.

I am writing first time something in this genre so not sure how this is going to pan out but I will try my best to do justice. I am not anyway connected to NCB so I might not be correct in descriptions, techniques or modus operandi so please excuse.

Being  a working mom I might not be able to update regularly or as promised so please bear with me. On top of it a simple word ravishing is considered offensive ..I never knew and the cumbersome way I had to find out that was really time consuming. If this scuttles creativity I am going to shift this story to my blog.

Wonderful start 👏 can't wait to read more! It is a very interesting concept! Lol I like Suman has the no-nonsense attitude and Shravan seems to be intrigued with her at first sight. So, in this story is Suman Shravan's senior officer or is it the other way around?

Beautiful start! Shravan is smitten by Suman at her first sight itself

I love the thing that you made them IO and SP! It's a refreshing concept!

Can't wait to read the further!

Originally posted by: alina.b

Wonderful start 👏 can't wait to read more! It is a very interesting concept! Lol I like Suman has the no-nonsense attitude and Shravan seems to be intrigued with her at first sight. So, in this story is Suman Shravan's senior officer or is it the other way around?

It's neither , Suman is from the NCB or Narcotics Control Bureau and Shravan is an IPS . Although NCB workforce is drawn from IPS and Indian Revenue Service but they are different in terms of reporting. NCB generally works with state and central machinery to unravel drug rackets so Suman and Shravan will be part of the team who are going to try and catch the drug lords.

Originally posted by: sambag

It's neither , Suman is from the NCB or Narcotics Control Bureau and Shravan is an IPS . Although NCB workforce is drawn from IPS and Indian Revenue Service but they are different in terms of reporting. NCB generally works with state and central machinery to unravel drug rackets so Suman and Shravan will be part of the team who are going to try and catch the drug lords.

Oh okay thank you for the clarification. I am not really aware of these departments so I was confused. Wow, this is going to be very interesting! It will be nice to see them working together especially since they have completely different personalities!

Interesting concept

Nice start

Shravan is mesmerized by Suman, but Suman is full aware and did not pay attention 😆

The issue is serious and important - Illicit drug trade👍🏼

Excited to read how they will work together as now they are part of same team

Thanks for writing 

Love it  ❤️ look forward to reading more! 

Wonderful start. Loved to read more. 

Chap-2 Perceptions

Although the NCB is the body which primarily deals with drugs and Narcotics, they work closely with state and central police as well international agencies toco-ordinate such operations. Since this operation (codenamed “Operation Sangam”),a very confidential one and the coverage was large it was important for the team irrespective of the department they belonged to, they needed to pick up the basic SOPs(Standard Operating Procedures) of drug trafficking and their tracking and cracking procedures. The team members from the IPS(Indian PoliceService) and IRS(Indian Revenue Service) were asked to go ahead and plan tostart the next day at a specific and confidential location in Bangalore where they will have to undergo some training. Shravan was not very happy with the situation. He was a decorated SP and good at his job and neither was he averse to learning but he had a chip on his shoulder about beautiful women in the team. He knew the fallouts of such scenarios where people are enamoured by their beauty including seniors and then for them it’s a walk in the park while the men in the team had to slog it out. He had seen a similar scenario sometime back in his career and did not want to go into this again. He decided to talk to his boss and excuse himself for the project. He looked at Suman, she was beautiful, smart but he was fine with harmless flirting with her but not ready to work with her. He could already see that the men were awed by her and the other two IOs hardly got footage. As Shravan looked over his resolve to move out of this new mission became stronger, he was not ready to sacrifice his hard work for a pretty looking face to walk away with the accolades. The only thing stopping Shravan from getting off this project today was because his boss was not in the city. He was away for a wedding and Shravan did not want to have this discussion over phone but talk to him directly. He needed to cook up a convincing reason as he could not give out the real reason else, he will be subjected to disciplinary action. For now, Shravan decided to carry on with all the activities that he had to undergo as planned in the schedule after all who does not like the company a beautiful lady and an old buddy.

The team was ready with the basic training and now they were headed to Chennai Zonal headquarters for further discussions, field experience and some more trainings. The train was at 6am in the morning and the team had gathered at the Bangalore Central Station to board. It was almost 6am and time for the train to depart but there was no sign of Suman. Aneesh and Shravan were having a long chat after long as cups of freshly brewed coffee flowed. They were catching up on good old days of their training at the Police Academy when the train started to move. They both had to leave their coffee cups and run to the train fast and then then saw the other folks who were looking behind them. When they asked they came to know that Suman has still not reached and they were worried. Shravan just peered out from the door they came in and saw Suman running along with a small backpack trying to get on the train. Shravan waived his hand which he saw Suman noticed and then he stretched out his hand to help Suman get on the train. A minute later he noticed nobody took his hand and neither could he see Suman running. He was now sure that Suman had missed the train but never mind he was anyways getting off this mess and he could enjoy this short journey. As she walked back to his seat, he heard Suman’s voice in the back and Shravan turned around to see Aneesh walking her to their compartment. So finally the lady reached and then he asked Suman “Oh!! You got into the train”. Suman smiled and said “Yes, thankfully I did not follow your stupid movie stunt and used my brains to get into the first compartment that was there. I had called Aneesh to inform that I was on my way and will make it and for you guys to carry on. But where do you get these ideas”.

Shravan : I just thought sometimes you can let yourself go and just be like normal young girls , why do you have to uptight always as if you are the only one catching the fugitives and we all are fooling around

Suman: Thank you for letting me know that I am boring and uninteresting, but I take that as a compliment as I don’t understand how people like you make it to places like police when you should be better off serenading pretty girls around trees

Shravan: Thank you for saying that I am good looking Casanova but I have made here on my merit and not by just using my pretty looks and body to get through things.

As soon as the words left Shravan’s mouth, he knew it was gross and wrong to perceive every woman the same way but this lady seems to bring out the worst in him. He looked at her and he saw she looked ashen and if he was correct, he did notice a sheen of tears which was quickly controlled as she turned and walked away. Shravan was thankful that there was nobody around and even Aneesh had walked ahead.