Raghav's point of view

Things are unprintable in life when you are a civil service officer,especially when you are an IPS. You face goons every day, solved murder cases, and do encounters. When I got into the Indian police survives, I oath to be honest towards my duty. I will protect the innocents but I forget that the profession I chose, here nothing is white collar. You have to stained yourself sometimes. You have to play dirty.

I can hear the notices around me, people are walking here and there, the emergency calls, screeching tires of the stretchers but my mind was full of thoughts. A.C was on full but I was sweating. What I have done is still fresh in my mind. I was hopping something. I wanted to things get settled on their places as soon as possible but I know the results are still away and I have to wait maybe little longer.

Night was darker just like I feel from inside after what I shot two people. No one knows what had happened in this jungle except me and two of my trusted man.

"Carefull, you are hurting the man.", I said.

"But he is dead.", Chaudhary stopped and looked at me.

He was sliding the dead body by its hands.

I don't have words to answer him because the body he was pulling was my brother once.

"Throw the bodies from the hill. Make sure it looks like an accident.", I turned my face to the other side and said while looking around the messer have created.

Chaudhary nodded his head and looked at Shukla ji.

"Shukla ji, I need your hands to clean up this.", Chaudhary was huffing and said to Shukla ji who was looking for evidence. We can't leave anything behind. This news going to be a headline in tomorrow's newspaper. We have to be careful when other team would be sending for inspection.

"Who is with the patient?", A lady in a white coat came out of the door and demanded my attention. She was successful to pulled me out from my deep thoughts. I stood up from the chair and approached her. Seeing me approaching her, she looked confused. Of, course she is. I was wearing a my uniform.

"Officer the man you bring here, how you related to him?", She asked me.

"He is my brother. We are cousins.", I stated. It was clear that I was dying to know the further information.

"He lost the lot of blood. We are still trying to stabilised him. We have put him under observation for 24 hours. Anything could be happen.", She was also looking tensed. I was praying continuously in my head. I just want him fine.

Doctor went away with her assistance while discussing the case with her colleagues.

******

It's been a week  I am visiting the hospital continuously. This case putting highlights in the media giving them a good TRP. Everybody around me started hating me including the people I love. But no one knows what I have done and why I did this.

I looked at the time in my wrist watch. It was almost 7 o' clock of the evening. I was in my casuals, wearing a shirt and jeans. I took a week off from the work just to take care of him.

I opened the door and looked at him. His face almost turn pale with IV tubes attached with his body. His wife was sitting beside him, looking at him with love. Her swollen eyes told me that she cried last night  also.  Her eyes fill with anger when she looked at me. I know she wants me to leave but she also knew that I am not gonna full fill her request. Her husband is my brother and being with him right now is my first priority.

She did not say anything but pore her hatred gaze towards me till I sit beside him.

His eyes flickered and he opened his after a week. I called the doctor while I asked his wife to sit. She needs the rest too. A team of doctor came into the room and checked on him. They checked his vitals and asked him few questions. When they were satisfied they leave after saying that he is fine now and just need rest but they will still put him under observation for few days. They asked his wife to take rest but she was adamant and wasn't ready to leave her husband's side.

Her husband first looked at his wife's side and clearly concern was visible and the love he has in his heart for her. Tears brim in their eyes when they both shed unshaded tears of love, then his eyes turn to me and a sly smile came on his lips. Seeing it my lips also curled into smile.

"Sale goli marne se pehle bta to deta.", He said while holding his head while I broke into a soft laugh.

Aditi was looking at both of us confusingly. She doesn't understand a word what her husband just said.

"You are not mad at him?", She asked looking at Dhruv.

He chuckled softly while holding his head and shake it lightly.

"He was bounded to do it otherwise things get more messy.", He said while looking at her. She was still looking confused and looking at me for more explanation.

"I already saw Rahul's dead body and I know what happened to him. So to save him I have to shot him to make it look like Rahul shot him and in defence he attacked on him.", I cleared things for her.

"So the gun was not yours?", She asked and I shake my head as no.

"It was one of his man", I said.

She was also shot by me what she recovered soon as the bullet touched her but Dhruv was in serious condition as I shot him two time to make things real. At once I also got worried if I miss the shot and bullet hit him wrong place but thanks to god he is fine now.

"What happened to his body?", Dhruv asked me.

"I threw it from cliff. We yet to find his dead body. I hope wild animals were not starving now.", I said while greeting my teeth.

"He got what he deserves. We win this Mahabharata.", Dhruv said while greeting his teeth.

When I looked at Aditi she wasn't having tears in her eyes but the satisfaction like she got her justice and she can live in peace.

******

Days had passed and we bring Dhruv back in his home in Lucknow. Media is still curious about the death of Rahul but surely he did not died as a hero. We recovered his body after 15 days and there was nothing much left. Wild animals already satisfied their starvation. We did not get much in his postmortem report and finally the case was closed after a month. Dhruv and Aditi were trying to get back into their life with the immense love they have. Dhruv's family accepted Aditi with open arms and Aditi still not forgive her family but she visits them to the sake of her bhabhi Megha and her niece.

In these days only one good thing happened. Aditi cleared the UPSC mains and now she is preparing for the interview which was in a week. Dhruv and I both take her mock interview and Dhruv also took her to Delhi to prepare her for interview.

My mother was upset when she came to know about Rahul but she knows he doesn't deserve to live so to distract her mind she looks for a girl for me for marriage and I am okay with it until she came over Rahul's fact.

I don't know what I want in my life but for sure I will never fall for anyone now.

Love is not for me.