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Dilli ke posh Vasant Vihar mein rehta tha Aarav Trivedi — ek urban life coach jiska YouTube par 2 million se zyada followers the. Unki daily raat 9 baje ki livestream “Mind Reset” kaafi popular thi. Saturday raat ki stream mein hamesha kuch special hota tha — audience interaction, guest speakers, aur kabhi-kabhi dark confessions. Par us raat kuch alag hi hua.
Aarav ki screen pe livestream chalu thi. Topic tha: “Letting Go of Trauma.” Paanch guest participants ko Zoom panel pe liya gaya tha — curated via Instagram DMs.
Guests the: Sandhya (widow from Pune), Rachit (college student from Jaipur), Saira (HR manager from Hyderabad), Mahek (fashion designer from Delhi), aur ek anonymous guest only labeled as “X”. Sabka mike muted tha, aur woh sirf host ke instruction pe bolne wale the.
Beech stream ke, ek se segment aata hai — Confession Box. Jahan har guest bina identify hue ek truth share karta hai.
Anonymous “X” bolta hai: “Main us shakhs ko dekh raha hoon jisne meri zindagi barbaad ki… aur wo yeh kahani sun raha hai.”
Aarav awkwardly laugh karta hai. “Thoda cryptic mat ho…”
Suddenly, Aarav cough karta hai… choke karta hai… uski aankhon mein paani aa jaata hai. Camera hilta hai aur wo girta hai. Stream freeze ho jaata hai. Thousands of live viewers confused.
10 minutes ke andar, uska flat ka caretaker enter karta hai — Aarav dead hota hai. Poisoned. Police call hoti hai.
Inspector Rajbir Thakur case ke charge mein aate hain. Initial postmortem: fast-acting organophosphate poisoning — via beverage. Drink tha chamomile tea. Par us flat mein kisi aur ke aane ka koi trace nahi. Doors locked. Yeh toh livestream tha!
Sabso shock yeh tha ki Zoom call ke guests remote the. Koi physical threat nahi. Then kaise?
Live stream audit kiya jaata hai. Found kiya gaya ki Aarav ne ek point pe har guest pe individually spotlight kiya tha. Jab Mahek pe spotlight tha, uski aankhon mein kuch ajeeb tha…like she was watching something on a second screen. Jab anonymous X bol raha tha, Aarav ne kuch likha tha ek sticky note pe: “Rachit?”
Police investigate karte hain — Rachit ke college ke CCTV footage ke basis pe pata chalta hai ki wo us din kaafi ghusse mein tha. Further digging reveals: Teen saal pehle Rachit ke behen Tanya ki suicide hui thi — jisme Aarav accuse hua tha publically shaming her after a ‘self-improvement’ workshop.
Sab sochte hain: motive hai. Par Rachit ki online feed dikhaati hai ki usne Zoom link share ki thi kisi aur ke saath — “Mujhe closure chahiye — tu bol de sab.”
Saira ka past nikalta hai: Ek saal pehle, unki company ne Aarav ko as motivational speaker hire kiya tha, jahan unhone ek anxiety-prone employee ko stage pe ridicule kiya tha. Teen mahine baad, woh ladka suicide karta hai.
Sabka kuch na kuch link tha Aarav se.
Finally, IT analysis ke baad clincher aata hai. Zoom call ke logs mein pata chalta hai ki ek participant ne “remote screen control request” aur “auto-play file” ka access temporary liya tha — allowed by host inadvertently. Jab “X” ka confession chal raha tha, tab unhone ek local file play kiya tha Aarav ke system pe — named “soulcleanse.ppsx”.
Us file mein embedded tha ek well-timed macro that popped open a guided meditation video. Aarav ne bina suspect kiye wo chalaya, devotional background tha. Par wo video user ke desktop pe ek script inject karta tha: it auto-clicks a backup installer in the background downloaded from crowd-sourced self-hypnosis tools — that included a ‘tea enhancer’ plugin Aarav promote karta tha. File ka bug: agar same naam ka script Aarav ke system pe run ho, it triggers a command to heat up his electric kettle loopily to unsafe levels and inject capsule-based camomile sachets with a dissolvable organophosphate liner. Yeh bas ek baar hota, livestream ke beech.
Crime tha purely virtual. Killer ne remotely Aarav ke “safe routine” ko weapon bana diya.
Police trace karte hain IP — X ka IP bounce karta hai. Par forensic social analysis se reveal hota hai ki anonymous guest “X” koi aur nahi, Mahek thi — designer jiska bhai Aarav ke online coaching ke baad severe depression mein gaya tha, eventually leading to accident. Usne viral #SoulScam campaign bhi initiate kiya tha.
Mahek confess karti hai. “Main usse physical touch kiye bina maarna chahti thi… jese usne sab ki zindagiyon mein kiya.”
Case media mein chhupaya jaata hai — cyber laws confuse hai is tarah ke psychological retaliation pe.
Aarav Trivedi ki death ek freak livestream accident mana jaata hai. Lekin kisi virtual room ke ‘mute’ hone ka matlab yeh nahi ki awaaz nahi aayi.
