The Night of the Event
There was a feel of party everywhere around the Marina Club. The reason being Continuation Party of class 12 students of St. Louis Convent School being organized there. This place has a profound ambience of its own. People have always liked Marina. They have been here during most parts of their lives by now. Be it world cups, be it a grand anniversary party be it anything people have loved it for ages now. Started officially about 25 years ago, it still doesn’t miss to stand apart. Maybe that’s why the students chose this as the ideal place for something like continuation.
Everyone is in their party moods. Girls in their black and red dresses with obvious heels and boys in their slim-fitted attire add grace to the party. The DJ is doing as the crowd says and bartenders are there to serve the poison. Wham! A gunshot is heard. And literally all of them scared to death. They all run to find the place of the happening and discover their most popular friend with the dead body. Vivaan Ahuja, the popular guy for no good reason is scared and drunk at the same time. The dead body is of Samar Singhania.
Few seconds and the cops are here with the media following. They arrest Vivaan Ahuja and take the corpse for post-mortem studies. Few hours later, Varun Ahuja’s good image gets bail for his son to be taken back home. And Mahesh Singhania files a case against Vivaan demanding life imprisonment accusing him of his son’s murder.
“Be honest with me at least!” says Mr. Ahuja to his son, demanding an honest reply.
“I am, dad. And you need to help me get out of this!” is the reply.
“How is this possible for you to be there co-incidentally and not do anything to get out?”
“I don’t know. And that’s what I have been thinking all the while I was in jail”.
“Alright then if you haven’t done it and you are sure that anything ever done by you can never lead to this then I’m going to go for the best of the best lawyers in town to get you out of this shit!” says Mr. Ahuja, taking out his phone and calling his manager to look for a defense.
“I know he is the one! He is the damn culprit! He is the one who killed my son!” says Mahesh Singhania to his defense. “And even if he isn’t then I don’t care whoever it is! I want life imprisonment for Vivaan”.
“What do you think you are saying Mr. Singhania?” says Albert d Souza, the defense. “How do you expect me to get Vivaan arrested even if he hasn’t done anything?”
“Because I pay you to do so!”
“Look Mr. Singhania, I can do that and I will do that for you. But first let’s find out who the real culprit is?”
“I don’t care!” says Mr. Singhania lighting up his Marlboro, “The thing is Ahuja group of industries is the only one ahead of Singhania group. And I hate that. See, the point here is that if the only son of the owner of Ahuja group is in jail then that obviously will lead to a downfall in the company’s shares and brand value as well. That’s what I want. If the values are low for this year, then investors will not be interested in his company. But they’ll obviously go for the second best which will then by their investments become the first best”
“Okay I’ll do as you say. And don’t worry at all, we will win this for sure” says Mr. d Souza.
Mahesh Singhania, the owner of Singhania group of industries is not at all worried for who killed his son or the reason behind the killing. He just wants Ahuja industries to suffer. Albert on the other hand also doesn’t want to know the reason for such hatred Mahesh has for his son. But he asked an explanation for this but was denied and then he isn’t worried because he is getting paid for evicting Vivaan Ahuja so that’s what his focus is now.
Meanwhile, media reports start surfacing everywhere about the above stated case.
“Everyone knows Mr. Ahuja, a man with a heart of gold, a hardworking youth who started working at a very vulnerable age” says Raman Chandra, from his T.V. show- Live and Living.
“But we should also not forget Vivaan’s past events and his indulgence in crimes of all sorts” says a guest on his show.
Many such shows and discussion programs were aired on most of the new channels that day. Some declared Vivaan as culprit and some as a part of a bigger conspiracy. The day was finally over, but the night of this day was no easy on the two men whose names were no longer just big businessmen but now the offenders of crime for some or the other part of the country. Nobody knew the reality, except the victim and the guilty. But this is the magnitude of influence that media nowadays has on the minds of people. Imagine for a second- How can some display of colors affect a person’s thinking to this level? Sleeplessness of this night was much harsh on Vivaan Ahuja.