Chapter 14 — Friday

Rohit Kapoor's trial commenced seven months later. The evidence chain — compiled by a 28-year-old urban planning consultant, her accountant friend, and a private security officer with an NSG background — was described by the prosecution as unusually complete.The water distribution report, formally accepted by the Delhi municipal committee on the following Thursday, produced revised maintenance allocation in three wards within six months. Priya Malhotra's consultancy received two national-level urban infrastructure contracts in the year that followed.Vikram Malhotra did not comment publicly on the Kapoor case or on his daughter's role in it. He did, on a Sunday morning some months later, call Arjun Rathore and say simply: You did the job right. Nothing else. It was enough.Raju, proprietor of the Vasant Vihar coffee establishment, noted that his corner table was becoming consistently occupied on Friday afternoons by two specific customers. He did not comment on this. He made the coffee good, as he always did, and found somewhere else to be, as people in the business of serving coffee learned to do.Some things, once started, simply continued. This was one of those.♥ ♥ ♥