To Where It All Began ✔

32. They Had Met Before...

Shreekant took Amna back to Disha's house and informed her of everything while he went back to the Police headquarters. After interrogating Parimal for around two hours Manoj sat along with Shreekant in his cabin to share some new pieces of information.

Manoj showed the video footage of Yadav's confession, "Whatever he told is true... Just the name of the Sir he mentioned, has changed. Parimal had paid a huge sum of money for his treatment and since then he became his loyal dog. About taking Miss. Biswas to Belgaum... Parimal's call records suggest he was in Belgaum itself for some official work but he couldn't make it to the old factory, as mentioned by Yadav. Yadav went to the construction site a day after the incident to check if they had left any pieces of evidence behind that could put them in problem but he could not complete his search because the watchman came inside unexpectedly.

"Another thing... he lied about the Pen drive. That Pendrive is still with Parimal, but they were indeed unable to open it. Parimal had kept it with himself with the hope that someday he will hack into the details and know about people who were working with Anna Mhatre. But the programming of the password was difficult to break into. Anna Mhatre probably swallowed the Pendrive when she was alone in that small room for a couple of minutes."

Taking a small pause he continued again, "To blackmail your father, any time in future, he had kept the twenty-five-year-old evidence collected by the Dasgupta couple regarding Study 94 in a bank locker. One of the men who worked for him during that time caused the accident deliberately and then took away the evidence. He saw the woman very badly injured and was sure that she will bleed to death. My officers will be bringing that evidence within a few hours. I have already talked to the bank authorities"

"What about the man who tried to shoot Amna at the orphanage?"

Manoj smiled a little, "He is one of the maintenance workers for Mhatre Niwas, his name was Vanraj. He was hired by Parimal for keeping an eye over you and Miss. Biswas after the news was telecasted. Yadav and Parimal contacted each other via internet calls. Our work is mostly done, the Narcotics team will soon be taking over and the case will go for Fast Track Judgement by Supreme Court as told to me by the Special Economics crimes Unit Leader"

Just as the conversation was going on, Kritika knocked on the door and almost immediately spoke, "Sir, I have got the original pen drive. It was in Parimal Roy's bedroom locker. His son tried to stop us but all he got was a couple of thrashes from me"

Shreekant gawked intently at the packet while Manoj continued, "The ER head will be arrested under bribery charges as well as for manipulation of critical evidence. The Forensic Doctor, Dr Rathore was not bribed... He was intimated badly and all he did was out of fear. We will see what to do with him later. But there are chances that they are losing their jobs as well as medical licenses."

As he finished his conversation with Shreekant, Kritika informed, "I have told the cyber team to access the password. I tried inserting the Pendrive in our systems, but the data is in a highly protected environment. It's a four-digit password..."

Manoj replied to her in a normal baritone, "Mrs Anna was a smart lady. She would have kept the password related to something about which only she knew"

As soon as Shreekant heard those words, something popped into his mind, "Sir, I think I know the password"

Kritika immediately blurted, "Mr Shreekant, please don't make guesses. We can lose the data in that Pendrive. That data was not only from Keerthana, it also had the information Amol gave to Anna Mhatre"

He spoke confidently, "Nowadays my instincts are not wrong. Let me try once"

Kritika and Manoj reluctantly agreed and gave him a laptop. Kritika inserted the pen drive and immediately a popup with a timer of one minute emerged on the screen. Shreekant quickly typed the password and alas it opened. All three of them were elated and then went through the details of the pen drive.