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Goa ke ek luxury beach resort mein Raghav aur Palak ki shaadi poore dhoom-dhaam se ho rahi thi. Hashtag #RaPaKiShaadi Instagram par trend kar raha tha. Mandap samundar ke kinaare, white orchids se sajaya gaya. Drone live stream kar raha tha shaadi ka har angle.
Raghav Kapoor, 34, Gurgaon-based tech startup ka CEO, shaadi ke din ka star tha. Mandap pe aate hi, bas ek kadam chal kar gira, aur shaant ho gaya. Sab ne socha heart attack. Par usey chalte hue kisi ne ISS tarah collapse karte dekha. Drone footage ne bhi wahi dikhaya – fall, fade, fir bas chaos.
Goa Police ne formal inquiry shuru ki. Death certificate heart failure batata tha, par Raghav ke bhai Tarun ne insist kiya postmortem ho. Report ne sab hilaa diya: potassium chloride injection se hua cardiac arrest. Yeh injection default detection se clear hota, agar Tarun insist na karta report pe.
Lekin shaadi jaisi crowded jagah pe kaise hua murder, aur kaun kar sakta tha?
Palak, dulhan, shattered thi. “Last 4 months se Raghav stressed tha. Kisi email ke baad change ho gaya tha. Mujhe nahi batata tha kuch.”
Tarun ne shaadi ki team ki details nikali. Videography contractor – ‘Aerial Shaadi’, ek Mumbai-based drone wedding startup. Drone operator – 21-year-old Sandesh Pawar, second-year film student. Sandesh ne drone ka raw footage diya, par ek 2-minute ka gap tha recording mein – wahi jahan Raghav mandap tak pahuncha tha.
“Sir battery swap hua tha… drone auto-land ho gaya tha tabhi,” Sandesh bola.
Lekin drone ka landing log uske app mein synced tha – aur dikha raha tha ki drone fly kar raha tha. Matlab footage deliberately delete ki gayi thi. Kya us moment mein kuch record ho gaya tha jo kisi ne chhupaya?
Guests list mein the Raghav ke 12 board members, 3 co-founders, aur Palak ke college best friends. Tarun ne ek board member – Vivaan Seth – ko pinpoint kiya, “Woh Raghav se kuch zyada hi close aaj kal ho gaya tha… aur company pitch deck pe uska naam bhi aa gaya tha.”
Vivaan se poocha gaya, toh usne kaha, “Raghav ne mujhe mentorship diya. Bas itna hi.” Lekin police records mein dikhaya gaya ki Vivaan ne shaadi se ek mahina pehle new startup file kiya tha – naam tha ‘KalaKart’. Aur Raghav us idea ko steal kar chuka tha, ek silent investor ke through.
Potential motive. Lekin Vivaan Goa tha hi nahi jab Raghav gira. Airport se uski selfie aur timestamped boarding pass clear proof the.
Game change tab hua jab Sandesh ne confessed kiya ki drone feed ko remotely kisi aur ne access kiya tha via WiFi repeater – bina uske jaane. Drone ka backup SSD missing tha. Usne kaha, “Ek assistant thi production team mein – Meher. Usne drone ke pass geeky questions kiye the. Ab woh gayab hai.”
Meher Malik, 26, shaadi organizers ki freelancer thi – AI security systems mein background. Police ne uska laptop Goa ke hotel se recover kiya. Laptop encrypted tha, par ek folder open tha – ‘Drona’. Usmein tha ek trimmed footage – Raghav walking slowly towards mandap, aur ek female hand uske paani ke glass mein kuch inject kar rahi thi. Angle aisa tha ki sirf bracelet dikh raha tha – ek silver bangle with three pearls. Palak ke haath waise hi the.
Tarun ne Palak ka khoj liya. Usne breakdown mein kaha, “Main nahi, woh Meher thi. Woh mujhe six months se manipulate kar rahi thi, ki Raghav mujhe use kar raha hai for image – ki shaadi sirf IPO optics ke liye hai.”
Post-investigation ne reveal kiya: Meher Malik koi hired freelancer nahi thi. Woh Raghav ke past ka part thi. 2019 mein Bangalore ke AI conference mein Raghav ne uska project chura kar uska patent pending start-up close karwaya tha. She vanished. Tab se plan chalu tha.
Palak bas ek pawn bani. Raghav ke movement, habits, habits sab research kiya gaya Reddit anonym accounts se surveil kar ke. Ek perfect time – shaadi – jab glam, distraction, aur crowd sab kuch blur karta hai. Meher ne Palak ko slowly psychologically break kiya, aur final day usi ke haathon glass handover karwaya.
The ultimate misdirection. Killer ne khud kuch nahi kiya – sab karwaya.
Meher ab bhi missing thi, but CCTV ne usko Goa se early morning ek dive boat mein jaate dekha tha – fake name ke saath. Digital trace dead thi. Matlab: she planned an exit better than an entry.
Tarun ne last line media ko kaha: “Woh ek drone thi… par woh control kab, kis haath mein gaya, kisi ko pata hi nahi chala.”
Aur shaadi ki woh viral video – ab ek dark documentary banne ja rahi thi.
