The jeep travelled for a long time by road. Rahini tried to trace the route but she lost track few kilometers away due to the bad road condition. Now there is no phone and no one following her to find about her whereabouts, she is risking her life to save the girl. Though Rahini looked brave and bold, no one but herself would know how much she is scared to face the flesh mountains all alone with no weapons for her defense. She is not in a position to imagine how danger it would become if she tried to do single thing against their instructions.
The badly damaged road made the jeep ride almost like a roller coaster. Rahini had to bump with the men inside the vehicle and she felt very disgusted by the bad odor from their bodies and bad rotten smelling mouth due to booze. She felt like puking but tried to control somehow. Another person who suffered the bad road ride was the one who is hanging below the vehicle. His position became worse whenever the vehicle crossed a speed breakers.
“Oh No. How far this is going to run? I cannot hold this for longer time” lamented Pratik
The vehicle ran for few kilometers before it slowed down to some industrial remote area. There were lot of stones, sands, bricks, cement piles up here and there. The vehicle crossed a construction site and travelled further inside. The scattered stones, thorns, nails and several other pricking objects injured Pratik’s back. After another few hours of running, the vehicle finally stopped at some place far remote than
anything. Pratik sensed the situation and immediately crawled from the place silently and hid behind a rock voluminous enough to hide him. Rahini was taken outside with her blindfold and a man unfolded her.
It took a while for her to get the vision clear and identify the things around her. She looked around and all she could see was a bare land, with some green plants here and there. There were some rocks in bigger, medium and smaller sizes. The whole area was very hot and there were dust in the air. The men dragged her inside a half-constructed building.
“get off me” yelled Rahini and she tried to get rid of his hold. “I need no-one to walk me through.”
“Mem Sahib! Don’t resist us in this remote place. It is better you listen to us and obey for your safety.” Said the thug kidding her.
Rahini angrily looked at him.
“Give the stuffs” asked the man
“I am not giving it unless I see the child.” Said Rahini in a firm voice.
“If you wish to see the child, give it now.” threatened the man
Rahini felt irritated but she had hid it.
“Listen. It is a deal. Show me the child. I will give it to you.”
“You bloody b**ch” screamed the man as he tried to grab the stuffs from her forcefully. Rahini resisted against him and few other men came to his help to grab it. As it was going on, a shadow appeared there
“Leave her” said the voice of the shadow.
The expression in the eyes of the men changed and they retreated from her. The shadow came towards her and a face appeared finally. His face had scars like typical Bollywood film villain and he may be around 50+ years age but stout and strong enough to attack ten flesh mountains at a time. Rahini felt like that she had seen him somewhere before. She tried to recall when and where but she couldn’t.
“Welcome Rani of Jhansi. We thank you for giving us the honor of having you here.” Said the voice mockingly at her.
Rahini gave an expressionless look but her mind was still recalling her encounter with him.
“So finally I have met the brave woman who has taken the oath of trapping our entire gang in front of the law. Some people are so stupid enough to consider themselves as intelligent and no one can outsmart them.”
“Look, I am not here to argue with you. I want the child right now. Stop wasting my time.” said Rahini to him.
“Hm. Great Journalist Madam. You will be having lots of engagements with Prime Minister, President of India that you will feel waste of time in talking with gangsters like us, huh?”
“Listen, you people mistakenly kidnapped an innocent child and threatening me now. The child’s family is suffering there. Here, I have all that you need. Take it and give the girl back”
“Oh! So you are here to give the evidences back to us and take the girl with you and you will publish how me and my men kidnapped and threatened you to stop investigating about our activities. Based on your statement, police will arrest us, charge us, punish us with years of imprisonment. Here outside you and your reporters will be getting awards and medals for getting us inside the prison. Is it what you think will happen?”
Rahini frowned.
“What do you mean?”
“My dear lady, I have heard many people saying that you are a intelligent woman in this world. How come you are such a stupid to think that you will be getting out of this place alive after you have decided to go to extreme steps to trap. Do we look like a fools to your eyes?”
Rahini felt little cold inside.
“The reason we brought here is to completely eliminate you along with those evidences. Very soon these are going to become ashes along with your body.” said the man and he laughed cruelly.
Rahini tried to conceal the fear as much as possible but the situation around her scared her like anything.
Oh No. What is he saying? Did I make mistake by coming here alone? Is he going to kill me? How the hell I am going to get out of here?
The man forcefully grabbed the stuff from her and immediately she was tied tightly by one of the men with her hands backside. Rahini tried to resist him but the thug got irritated by that and gave her a blow. Rahini felt like butterflies fluttering around her head. The blow was so heavy that she felt giddiness which made her unable to stand.
“You wanted to expose our activities to this world is it not? ” asked the man “I am afraid that it is not possible for you in this birth. Before you finally leave this world once for all, just have a look at how your child and how she is going to live her rest of life.”
Rahini who was about to lose consciousness woke up on hearing what he said. The man pointed some men and Rahini was shocked to see what those men brought along with them. She initially heard crying sound from a direction which is supposed to be sound of little children. She struggled to hold her conscious and she saw some little girls in age group less than 10 years gathered around crying in panic. To Rahini’s horror, she saw Trisha standing among them with same fear and panic like others.
“Trisha” called Rahini in a feeble voice.
She tried to go towards her but the man behind grabbed her hands. Trisha was standing with the girls crying continuously. Rahini looked at her not knowing how to get her out if this place.
“When we kidnapped this girl, we thought to revenging you by sending this girl away. It was disappointing that she is not your daughter. But we somehow understood she means to you a lot. This girl is going to
be lost because of you and no one knows where she is going after she went from here. Even we won’t be knowing what and where her fate will be once we sell overseas.” said the man.
Rahini started to show her fear in face. This delighted the man a lot.
“So do you think you can survive in this world after crossing our path. How dare you will think that Naina Didhi will let you live peacefully after that?” asked the man angrily.
Rahini felt the shock of her life on hearing the word ‘Naina didhi’. Naina Deshpande. Now everything became clear for her. She now got reminded of the man standing in front of her. It was the same man who was her right hand. He was the one who kidnapped children from elsewhere and disfigured them. He was the one who disfigured Meena and many other girls. What happened to Meena after they escaped from there? What happened to other girls who escaped along with her? Are they alive? Did they escape or got trapped to them again?
When Rahini decided to investigate the crime, she knew some child kidnapping racket is operating from Mumbai. How did they come here? They were some where in Ahmedaba. Naina shifted to Mumbai when she was young. Perhaps her gang also shifted along with her. She is the main politician who is backing this gang but she got award for her activities against child kidnapping.
This whole truth is going to be washed off along with her dead body. No one will know. Police may investigate the death of her but they won’t relate Naina in this matter. Even if they, her political power will suppress everything.
God! I have to do something. No matter I live or die, the truth, the evidence, Trisha and all other innocent children should leave this place safe. But how? What can I do now? God! Please help me. The thug burnt the evidences in front of her. Rahini stood helplessly. The little girls were dragged towards a container and the children resisted the flesh mountains only to get beatings heavily. Trisha saw Rahini standing there.
“Rahini aunty” cried Trisha loudly as she tried to move from there but the man pulled her cruelly.
“Trisha” cried Rahini
“Have a look for one last time.” Said the man.
Another thug dragged her to some place. Rahini tried to resist but she was already tired by the incidents.
Everything is over. She is going to die shortly. All her friends, colleagues, job, her fame, her popularity everything ran through her mind. She had visions of a young woman, a man, Radha, Kannapiraan and Arjun.
“Arjun” cried Rahini heavily. “I am sorry beta, I am going to join your father leaving you alone. You have to avenge them for your mother’s death. You have to expose the truth about them. Will you do that for me?” thought Rahini.
“Don’t worry. Don’t feel sad for leaving the world all alone. We have made all arrangements to send-off your daring heroic reporter to accompany you to the astral world.” Said the man and all his men laughed.
She began to lose her consciousness along with her hope.
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