Shourya PoV:
I opened my wallet to see Diya’s photo. This is the reason I thought to leave her though I loved her a lot. Diya is more important to me than my own life. Just because of me, she is in danger today. I regret leaving her alone in the room to attend the call.
Teardrops fell on her photo from my eyes. I love Diya. How to save her now? I called Ranveer.
“Hello Shourya, tell me,” He said
I am unable to speak anything.
“Shourya, are you ok? Why are you not taking anything?” He asked
“Ranveer, Diya…. ”
“What happened to Diya?”
“Diya was abducted by terrorists. They were asking to handover proofs by tomorrow evening.
But, tomorrow morning, we must submit the proofs to President to arrest them. President is going on tour for ten days after the meeting, and we can’t arrest them if we miss this chance,” I said to Ranveer.
“But you should also save Diya Shourya. Listen, we may get a chance again if we try. For now, give the proofs to them and save Diya,” Ranveer said.
“If I do that, I will be a good husband. But I will die as a police officer. Ranveer, you risked your life too for these proofs. I can’t do this. If possible, prepone the meeting with President ji tomorrow,” I said, wiping my tears.
“But Shourya, what will you do if they harm Diya? No, you are taking a big risk. I can’t allow this to happen. I am ordering you as a Home Minister, give those proofs to them.”
“Then what will be the difference between those terrorists and me? They are killing people for their selfishness. I can’t be selfish to save Diya and let many innocent people die. I took the decision. I am sure wherever Diya is, she will be happy and proud of my decision,” I said and disconnected the call.
The next morning, I met President and took permission to arrest ministers involved in terrorist activities. We raided their houses and arrested them. The investigation started by afternoon. Geetha and I started an investigation. But no one said the name of the mastermind behind all these activities. While investigating, I got a call from the person trying to open Chitra’s di’s pen drive.
I went there and watched the video. Looking at the video and the person in it, I felt that Earth under me is spinning. I wiped my tears and took a pen drive to show to Ranveer. Ranveer watched the video.
“Ranveer, I can’t believe this. How can he kill Ashutosh and Chitra di? I can’t believe this,” I said.
“I have this doubt from many days, Shourya, but having no proofs, I didn’t talk about this to you,” Ranveer said, taking a deep breath.
I went home from there. Mom is in the hall and looked at me.
“Hey Shourya, where is Diya?” mom asked.
“Where is dad?” I asked, and mom showed his room.
I went with my team to his room. Mom tried to ask me something, but I didn’t give any chance. Dad looked at me.
“Shourya, why did you come to my room with your team?” He asked casually.
“Where is Diya?” I asked him
“What? Avani said that you took Diya for a date yesterday. How can I know where is Diya?”
“Enough. Tell me, why did you kill Ashutosh and Chitra di? How can you kill your daughter? Why did you try to spoil the life of Diya?” I asked, controlling my emotions.
“What are you talking about, Shourya? I don’t know anything,” he said
“Arrest him,” I ordered, and my team took him into custody.
“Shourya, don’t you know about your dad? He won’t do such things,” mom said
“Mom, I had evidence for his crimes,” I said and took him to Geetha.
Hearing my phone ringing, I went out to take the call.
“Hello”
“Hello DCP Shourya, you have made a huge mistake by going against our words. Soon you will see the result. Wait to see the dead body of your loving wife, Diya.”
“You bl**dy,” I said, but they disconnected the call.
I called the team whom I ordered to trace the number and find Diya.
“Sir, we are sorry. We are unable to trace the number. It’s showing different locations every five minutes. They are trying to misguide us.”
“Do anything but trace Diya’s location. Do it fast,” I said and disconnected the call.
Geetha played the video from didi’s pendrive. Dad is speaking with a few other entrepreneurs.
“Finally Ashutosh was dead. Sad, but had no option. I said I would give crores of rupees if he accepts for match-fixing. But he refused to join hands with me. I didn’t think of killing him.
Unfortunately, he forced me to kill him by trying to complain about me to the prime minister, bringing my dark secrets into the light.
I tried to convince that fellow, but he is too patriotic. India can’t bear such people who are too patriotic. Because now, India is full of selfish people. So I freed him from this selfish world,” dad said, laughing to his gang.
“Dad, how can you do this? How can you join hands with these people and kill our Ashutosh? How can you be a traitor to the nation by involving in match-fixing? Are those religious riots created by you to kill Ashutosh without getting a doubt on you? You didn’t even feel pity for those innocent people who were dead in riots? Though you are my dad, I won’t leave you. I will drag you to court,” Chitra di said and tried to go, but dad shot her.
“Dad”
“Look, my baby daughter, if you forget the relationship for justice, I too can kill you for saving myself,” dad reshot her, but she ran from there.
Seeing the video, Geetha and I became emotional but controlled ourselves.
“Diya and Ranveer tried a lot to get Chitra’s killers punished. But they suffered them a lot. When Diya was sold, Rajeev went there to save her, but Diya misunderstood him. Rajeev acted as if he would kill Diya for your dad, but he tried to save her. On that day, Rajeev met Diya to abduct her and send her far from everyone till you return from training to save her. But unfortunately, Diya killed him. Nandika told this to us, but as we can’t prove it in court without proper evidence, Ranveer and I waited till now for the truth to come out,” Chitra said.
My team called me and said that they traced the place. I went there. There’s no one in that place, but I found Diya’s watch. I took her watch, and it had blood marks. We searched the whole place, and we found only blood marks but not Diya. I sent blood samples to the forensic lab, and they confirmed it’s Diya’s.
“We are sorry, Shourya,” Geetha said, consoling me.
I understood that they killed Diya. I lost my Diya and baby forever. I didn’t even see her dead body. I remembered her smile, her anger, her pouting face, our first kiss, her jealousy, and possessiveness. I am sorry, Diya. I failed as a husband. I couldn’t save you and our baby.
I remembered dad. I went to the place where we kept them. They killed Ashutosh, Chitra di, spoiled Diya, and Ranveer’s life to escape from their crime of creating religious riots.
India is a place where we people belongs to different religions stay together with love and affection. But these politicians and big shots are using religion for their selfish motives. I took my revolver to shoot dad as he didn’t deserve to live. But, Ranveer came there and pulled me back from entering the room.
“Shourya, control yourself. The next day on my special request, the judge accepted for the trial of this case,” Ranveer said.
The next day we took them to court, and dad was sentenced to death. Few others are sentenced to death and a few lifetime imprisonments. I succeeded in saving my nation but failed as a husband. I handed over criminals to Geetha and went to the backyard of court. I took Diya’s photo.
“I love you, Diya. I love you so much. As I said, I prioritized the security of our nation over my wife and baby. But I can’t live without you, Diya. I can’t live without you,” I said and took my revolver.
I kept my revolver near my temple and shot it. Suddenly I felt someone pulling my hand from forehead to up in the air. I shot in the air and looked at the person infront of me. It’s Diya. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I hugged her.
“Diya, how did you escape from them? I thought you left me seeing your blood there,” I said, kissing on her face as I can’t stop my emotions.
Diya showed Ranveer.
“Ranveer.”
“You took a big risk for the nation, and I took a big risk for my best friends,” he said, smiling.
“But how?”
“I had a friend who is capable of tracking the location of any mobile through software created by him. I called him to trace the location. Fortunately, I went to the place in time and found Diya wrist injured. They tied her to the chair and cut her wrist to make her die, losing blood. I fought with them and got them arrested. Diya was safe, but I didn’t want to reveal that until judgment comes out. So my dear friend here is your wife. I hope this will be the last time where I save your Diya. Because from next time, save your wife by yourself,” Ranveer said, pushing Diya towards me.
I hugged her from the side. Suddenly we heard gunshot sounds. I asked Diya to stay in Ranveer’s car, and Ranveer and I went there. I found few people who covered their faces with scarfs are shooting on constables to free dad. Ranveer and I took the revolver and shot two of them.
We continued firing by escaping from their bullets. I found dad escaping in a car while we are firing. I remembered Ashutosh and Chitra di. I shot on the petrol pipe in dad’s car, and petrol was flowing. I shot at the place where petrol was leaking. Car was blasted, and in front of my eyes, dad was dead. Not dad, a hardcore criminal, a traitor to the nation, was dead.
I came back to this world, hearing a firing sound near to me. I looked at Ranveer. He saved me from a bullet and shot the goon. We finally shot all the goons, and the remaining culprits were sent to prison. The only thing I need to do is attack terrorists and stop the plan of a bomb blast because sleeper cells go on work, though the mastermind was dead.