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Mumbai ke upscale suburb, Powai mein ek chic 2BHK flat ke andar, ring light chamak rahi thi. Influencer jugalbandi trio — Tushar, Naina aur Shreyas — roz shaam ko “Midnight Masala” naam ka interactive YouTube livestream karte the. Teenon ki chemistry aur cringey pranks ne unhe viral bana diya tha. Lekin kal raat ka episode sabse alag tha.
12:02 am tak sab normal tha – funny challenges, dare games, aur audience ke questions. Phir Naina ne ek blind taste test challenge suggest kiya: “Hum teen kuch cheezein blindfold mein taste karenge. Audience guess karegi what’s gross and what’s gourmet!”
Minutes later, Shreyas ne ek packet se kuch nikala aur kaha, “Yeh Naina wala hai, imported cheese.” Naina ne taste kiya, ek second ke liye pause hua, phir hasi – “Ew! Tastes like socks!”
Stream mein hast-haste hi teenon ne goodnight bola. Lekin subah 7:15 baje wohi stream clip dobara viral hone laga – “RIP Naina! Final Moments on Stream!”
Naina was found dead in her bed next morning. No injury marks. Par streaming room ke smell mein kuch ajeeb tha – like spoiled almonds. Police ne postmortem ke baad declare kiya: cyanide poisoning.
Case sabko shock mein daal gaya tha. Sab kuch livestream hua, toh koi kaise poison de sakta hai bina kisi ko pata chale? Tushar aur Shreyas ko questioning ke liye uthaya gaya. Footage ko forensic team ne dissect kiya.
Par tabhi ek aur twist aaya. Naina ke Insta story archive se pata chala she had been privately messaging a small-time chemist, Prithvi, jise woh 4 saal pehle college mein jaanti thi. Khamosh, socially awkward ladka jo uske peechhe obsessed tha. Investigation mein pata chala ki unka ek ugly spat hua tha 2 mahine pehle – she had mocked him publicly on a livestream for calling her “his muse”.
Toh sabka doubt Prithvi pe gaya. Lekin uska airtight alibi tha – he was attending an overnight pharmaceutical seminar in Lonavla.
Inspector Darshan Joshi – no-nonsense cybercrime expert – ek nayi angle pe kaam kar raha tha. Usne usi raat ke livestream ki frame-by-frame audio mapping ki. 23rd minute mein ek muffled sound tha – jaise koi spoon kisi glass mein ghooma raha ho.
Phir ek chhoti si cheez samne aayi – jab Naina ne taste test kiya, tab sirf uska cup ka handle black tha. Baaki doston ke white.
Joshi ne kitchen inspect kiya. Hidden drawer ke peeche ek small pouch mila – sodium cyanide ki traces ke saath.
Tab finally twist khula.
Tushar ne confess kiya. Par yeh koi gussa wala murder nahi tha. It was… a “collab stunt gone wrong”.
“Tujhe yaad hai 3 mahine pehle jab humara channel drop hone laga tha? Naina ke idea par, humne socha – fake poisoning prank karein. Jisme woh pretend karegi ki taste test ke baad gir padi hai bejaan hokar, aur phir second stream mein reveal karegi – it was a joke. Jitna outrage milega, utna zyada followers badhenge,” Tushar explained, shaking.
“Woh cyanide nahi tha – ya toh actual cyanide accidentally aa gaya, ya Prithvi ne Kisise bhi out of spite swap kar diya ho… but mujhe bhi nahi pata kaise.”
But Prithvi’s seminar confirmed full surveillance. Uspe kuch prove nahi hua.
Final analysis ye tha ki sodium cyanide ka packet – originally prop ke liye manga gaya, real poison nikla. Who ordered it? Uska trace ek VPN through Isfahan cyber server pe terminate hota tha. Untraceable. Joshi suspect karta hai – shayad Naina hi prank mein thoda aur “realism” chah rahi thi. Ya kisi ne andar se unka game hijack kiya. Sabse dangerous part? Kisi ne yeh sab livestream pe dekh kar plan replicate kiya ho sakta hai.
“Social media mein stunt aur sach ka farq kab khatam ho gaya?” Joshi ne kaha, final file band karte hue.
Livestream ab private ho chuka hai. But ek mirror clip Reddit pe abhi bhi viral hai – comment mein likha hota hai: “Look at Tushar’s smile at 25:29… it wasn’t fake.”
