Chapter 10 — Naina Builds the Case

Not a press package — not yet. A legal package. Seventy-three pages of structured evidence, sourced and corroborated, sufficient to support criminal charges in the UK for murder, fraud, and unlawful surveillance, and international charges through the ICC mechanism for systematic targeted killings using commercial technology.She sent copies to five locations simultaneously.Kenji in Tokyo. Leila in Dubai. Philippe in Geneva. Her own unit commander in Delhi, with a cover letter she had rewritten eleven times. And a journalist in London she had identified independently — a woman at a financial crime publication who had been trying to crack CipherNet's government contracts for two years and whose encrypted contact details she had found through a digital security journalist network Rohan had connected her to.She sent them all at the same time on a Wednesday morning.Then she called Interpol's financial crimes division through the official channel she was technically entitled to use as an active officer of the Delhi Police.Then she called Thames Valley Police and asked to speak to the SIO on the M4 case about new evidence regarding the victim identification.Then she put her phone down.She looked at the Geneva lake through the window.She thought: Arjun. Where are you.