The Final Thing
Flashback to the last night. At the hospital.
The same hospital where Rajveer is being operated upon. Robert and Arun, both are present.
“What if he never got up? What if the doctors lose him?” A.K. was worried.
“Don’t worry. This is not the first time he has had a bullet in his chest.” said Robert.
“Doctors were saying the bullet has pierced very close to the heart.”
There was silence. Silence for a few seconds.
Robert then was crying. Not literally, but sobbing silently.
“Then we might lose him and the case”, he said after some time.
“You please calm down. If you’re saying then he will get up. He will surely get up, we won’t lose him this soon.”
The doctors then came out and said that he was fine but needs bed rest for 2 days before starting to walk normally again.
“See, he came fine. But not absolutely” said Sharma.
“Man now you see! He will be fine within a few more hours. You just go prepare for tomorrow”
“Are you sure? What if he didn’t get fine this soon?”
“I’ll give you a wink at the courtroom when you would be interrogating me. And a wink means”
“Yes, he is here”
So this was all about the wink game.
And after the wink, something happened.
Sharma- What, Mr. Robert, what did you find out? What success are you talking about?
Robert- The finger prints led me to three suspects. And I would like to bring them in the court.
Albert was almost in tears. He then calmed himself. Motivated himself. And then, was fully ready to face anything.
The judge then allows him to call any witnesses he wants to.
Then everyone sees a very strange sight. The sight of a heroic tale. Where the hero is all bandaged and tied up at every body part of his and still saves the girl at the end.
Such a hero was coming, with the help of two constables.
It was Rajveer. Yes, he had survived. And he was able to walk almost on his own. He entered the courtroom with many constables, as the three doubtful ones were also there.
Talking about the three doubtful men. Two days it had been since these three were send in remand. Their statements had been recorded there only. But they will be speaking here as well. And they were threatened by Rajveer that if you lied in the court, then you die in the court.
The look on the people’s faces- speechless. Speechless to see how one man is giving all his sweat and time to prove the right ones right and the wrong one wrong.
The three were ordered to stay close to the witness box.
The judge ordered Robert to speak and explain.
Robert- The finger prints of these three have been found on the murder spot. I myself have confirmed it. No finger prints were lost, they were just out of records for a while. The two of them here, had their finger prints on the dead body as well. Then I got to record their statements and this is what they’ve told me.
A CD is played in front of the whole court. Everyone keenly listens to it.
1st person- Sir, we reached Samar’s house three days ago to kidnap him. We stealthily breached the security in and out and took him to our place. We knew that his dad was out. We starved him and gave only tablets to him.
2nd person- Tablets that could affect his abdominal area and damage all the surrounding tissues.
3rd person- Sir, then with the use of a special tool, they shaped his wound. I was keeping a track of his dad’s movements, meanwhile.
1st person- Sir, then we also had dressed him up in his party wear clothes so that we could make it look like the murder was committed on the party night.
2nd person- On the continuation party night, we went to the Marina and silently placed him on the empty room on the floor above.
3rd person- I had some contacts in Marina. So I could get entry whenever I wanted.
Done. Everything was done. And everyone was getting shockers one after the other as the seconds on the video timer moved forward.
After a few more moments of silence, the court proceedings had to proceed.
The three of them had also said that it was Irfaan Qamil who had forced them to do so as if he survived, then his whole smuggling would get affected.
The silence continued for a few more moments. Maybe it seemed like moments because no one wasn’t even moving. Maybe it was way too much than just moments. And then suddenly.
Sarita Roy- After hearing Mr. Arun Kumar Sharma’s reports and the statements of these three men. the court would now like to give Albert d Souza a chance to speak up for himself.
Albert- Now, your honor, I would like to say that there’s nothing left in this case. Vivaan is not guilty, true. True that I was wrong in judging him so badly. And also true that I was putting up some false allegations on him. But anyone in my place would have done this, or maybe more. About the three of them, I would only say that everything, seriously everything now seems in place after listening to their statements. And now the main culprit is here your honor, so you should do justice to the people present here and so I would not really like to say much but only request the court and you, your highness, to do the best to the guilty and also to the innocent.
Irfaan. Irfaan Qamil. Sitting on the hottest seat. At one corner. Was listening to all this. All of this going on and Albert, his once good friend doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Nothing to save him. Nothing to even reduce his death sentence or even life imprisonment. But he was just waiting and watching. He had to wait longer to see whether he was getting life imprisonment or death sentence straightaway. He was waiting. Waiting and warming. Heating actually.
Sarita Roy- Thank you, Mr. d Souza. Now, listening to both sides of the story and an entirely new side of the three proven guilty men here, the court has given death sentence to the three and life imprisonment to Irfaan Qamil.
She paused. She needed to think. She was sweating. She was in vain. She spoke up once again. Once again fearless and bold as she has been in all her 37 cases of her career.
Sarita Roy- And the court also gives 1 year of jail to Kriti Singhania, on finding her guilty of lying in court, making fun of the jury and the constitution of our country. Adjourned.
Saying this, she wrote something and broke her pen.
The court was adjourned.