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“Beta, WhatsApp par dekha tune? Amol bhaiya pe video viral ho gaya, wohi dinner table wali!”
Rashmi ne apne husband Jai ko jab yeh baat boli, toh Jai ka chehra peechhe se safed ho gaya. 28 saal ka yeh software consultant ek din pehle hi apne Mama ke shraadh pe gaya tha — Mumbai ke Prabhadevi ke ek posh flat mein.
Joint family — Chitnis parivaar — ke sab member wahan the. Amol mama, unki second wife Reema, Amol ka beta Shaan (Reema ka step-son), aur aur bhi rishtedaar. Dinner table pe sab ne puri-shrikhand khaya, aapas me thoda bahut taana-baana bhi hua… par video?
Rashmi ne phone par video dikhayi. Shaky footage, WhatsApp forward jaisa. Dikha: sab log khaane par baithe hain. Amol bhaiya ek dum se collapse kar jaate hain, unke haath mein shrikhand ka kaanch ka katora hai. Sab log daudte hain. Background mein koi keh raha hai: “Reema ne kuch milaya tha!”
Video blur ho jaata hai.
Cut to: Police complaint file hoti hai, kyunki viral video mein murder ka suspicion hai. Amol ki postmortem report mein cyanide trace hota hai. Poison shrikhand ke katori mein tha. Par sab shocked hain — video kisne banaya?
Jai ne technical angle se video analyze kiya. Found metadata: phone name “Sha20_ProZ”. Shaan ka phone. Shaan se poochha gaya, bola uska phone ek hafte se chhuta hua hai. FIR mein Shaan suspect ban gaya.
Shaan, ek introverted photographer, apni step-mom Reema se nafrat karta tha. Aur video bhi uske phone se viral hua. Par sab kuch kuch zyada convenient lag raha tha.
Jai ne notice kiya ek aur baat — shraadh dinner ke 20 minute baad Shaan ne Instagram pe ek live nature sketch upload kiya tha — which was timestamped and geotagged, from Nariman Point. Dinner ke waqt vo ghar pe tha hi nahi.
Toh phir video kaise bana?
Jai ne tab Reema ki digital footprint check ki — ek friend’s help se. Dikhayi diya ki Reema ne teen din pehle Shaan ke phone pe ek barcode scan app install kiya tha — remotely LinkedIn ke link ke zariye. Us app ne phone ka access third-party ko de diya tha.
Reema tech-savvy nahi thi. Toh yeh kaun kar raha tha?
Tab police ne ek aur shocking cheez ki: poore video ka deepfake analysis.
Woh “viral WhatsApp video” — original hi nahi thi.
Faces sabke real the, par movements AI-modelled, background artificially recreated.
Yeh video shraadh ke ek din baad banaaya gaya tha. Yani, kisi ne Amol ko maar ke, kisi aur scene ka one-shot video fake kar ke viral kiya — taaki natural death ko murder lage, aur blame Shaan ya Reema pe aaye.
Final clue mila Jai ko dinner table ki ek purani family photo se. Amol ke peechhe bookshelf thi, jisme ek red-bound diary thi. Viral video mein woh diary dikhaayi nahi deti.
Yani video dinner ke waqt ka nahi tha. Scene recreate kiya gaya — sirf diary miss hone se pata chala.
Aur jiska motive sabse chhupa tha — woh tha: Bunty Kaka — Amol ka cousin. Jo shraadh mein toh aaya tha, par chup-chaap. Uska jewellery business Reema ne expose kiya tha SEBI ko. Bunty ke 40 lakh ka fraud case pending tha. Amol use warn karne wale the. Shaan ka phone Bunty ne kahin se chura ke use kiya, AI tools use kiya, dinner scene recreate kiya, aur phir Reema par suspicion daala.
Twist?
Par Reema bhi guilty nikli — unhone Amol ke shrikhand mein neend ki dawai milayi thi, taaki vo dinner ke baad koi confrontation na kare. Par Bunty ne wohi shrikhand swap kar diya — cyanide version se. Reema soch bhi nahi sakti thi ke vo asli death ka zariya ban gayi.
Moral grey zone: teen log dusre ko manipulate kar rahe the, aur crime unka overlapping accident ban gaya.
Killer Bunty tha, par catalyst Reema thi. Aur scapegoat ban gaya Shaan.
Aur sabka saazish ka devta? Deepfake.
Jab sach samne aaya, to WhatsApp par aur ek naya forward gaya:
“Mat dekho har viral video ko news. Kabhi usmein poison hota hai.”
