Ivaan came out of the court winning yet another case. He had a victorious smile on his face.

It was a marital rape case. The husband had forcefully married the woman and had been torturing and raping her since an year. The girl was initially very scared because of her family and society but when she lost her child because of his tortures she could not keep quiet.

Ivaan met the lady in his office around 2 months back and he was shocked to see her condition. It seemed like she had been starved for very long.

Her parents felt so helpless and Ivaan assured them that he would give them justice.

And today she finally got what she deserved. The man was now given imprisonment for 15 years under various sections.

Ivaan saw the girl and her parents. Her parents fell on his feet and he picked them up and shook their head.

"Kya kar rhe hai ye aap? Aap mere parents ki age ke hai. Please ye mat kijiye."

(What are you doing? You are my parents' age. Please don't do this.)

"Aapne jo hamare liye kia hai uske liye hum kuch bhi kre wo kam hai."

(Whatever you have done for us is greater than whatever we do for you.)

They had tears flowing down their eyes. Aadrik smiled and hugged them.

He looked at the girl and she joined her hands with tears in her eyes. He held her hands and shook his head. He patted her cheek and they went away thanking him.

Ivaan sighed heavily as he looked at the girl. She was just 20 years old and had already suffered so much. He just prayed for a better life for her now. He was happy that he could free her from the hellish life she was living.

He went home and told his parents about everything. They were proud of him.

Ivaan was sitting on the terrace in the evening looking and admiring the night sky.

He felt someone's head on his shoulder and smiled.

"Kya hua? Aaj bada pyaar aa rha hai madam ko? Kya kaam hai?"

(What happened? Today you are feeling very loving? What is the work?)

Ditya smiled slightly and Ivaan knew that she was troubled about something she would have retorted back with something.

"Kya baat hai?"

(What happened?)

He asked caressing her hair. She looked at him and asked very innocently.

"Ab uss ladki ka kya hoga bhai? Usse toh sab log victim ki tarah dekhenge. Puri zindagi logo ki nazron mai wo bas ek bechari ban kr reh jaayegi. Aapne usse ek hell se toh bacha lia lekin iss dusre hell se?"

(Now what will happen of that girl bhai? People will look at her as a victim. She will became helpless in the eyes of people. You saved her from one hell what about this other hell?)

Ivaan sighed sadly. He knew she was right. This was the harsh and filthy truth of our society.

"Ek ladai uski maine lad li. Ye ladai usse khud ladni padegi. She will have to prove to the world ki wo bechari nhi hai. Ki wo victim nhi hai survivor hai."

(I fought her one fight. This fight she has to fight alone. That she is a survivor and not a victim.)

He said making her smile. He smiled too seeing her cute smile. She was his cute bacha.

They heard Ditya's phone ping. She opened her phone and saw that her friend had sent her a video which was probably trending now.

She was about to close it but the caption along with it caught her attention.

'Nilesh Moondhra, one of the biggest industrialist, alleged of owning multiple brothels in the country.'

Ditya looked at Ivaan and he was looking at the text frowning. He took her phone and played the video.

The video started showing a girl of about her age protesting and claiming that Nilesh Moondhra owned numerous brothels throughtout the country.

"Kitni nabalik ladkiyon aur aurton ki zindagiyan barbaad ki hai iss insaan ne. Ye jo apne aap ko dikhata hai wo hai nhi. He is a monster."

The girl spoke in anger and when she was asked how could she claim so she said that she had proofs and that she would disclose them only in court.

Ivaan chuckled and said.

"Publicity stunt hai aur kuch nhi."

(This is a publicity stunt and nothing else.)

Ditya looked at him and said thoughtfully.

"Koi itne bade aadmi ko iss cheez ke liye kyu accuse karega wo bhi sirf publicity ke liye."

(Why would someone accuse such a big personality for a publicity stunt.)

"Bhut log pagal hai iss duniya mai."

(There are many maniacs in this world.)

Ditya still was lost in her thoughts.

"Lekin agar ye sach keh rhi hogi toh?"

(What if she is saying the truth?)

Ivaan looked at her thoughfully and smirked.

"Phir toh isse milna padega."

(Then we have to meet her.)

"Dhundoge kaha se?"

(Where will you find her?)

"Ab tak media iski puri janam kundli nikal chuki hogi."

(Media would have found out her whole background by now.)

He said chuckling and Ditya too chuckled. She searched the news on Google and as he told there was every information about the girl.

Ditys started reading her janam kundli.

"Naam Kiara Gupta. Age 25 years. Aapse chhoti hai."

(She is younger than you.)

She said wiggling her eyebrows and he rolled his eyes.

"And probably joothi bhi."

(And probably a liar too.)

"Haww bhai! How can you judge someone without even knowing their side of the story."

She said mockingly and he gave her a bored expression.

"Shut up and continue."

"Has helped various girls in the city who were not able to join school because of family circumstances, helped girls stop forced marriages because of family pressure. Aur bhi bhut saari cheeze hai. Mujhe toh genuine lag rhi hai. Ek minute ye kya hai? Collegues call her Miss expressionless. Hain!?"

(There are many more things. I think she is genuine. One minute what is this? What!?)

She looked at Ivaan with a scrunching her nose in question and he shrugged.

"Wo toh mil kr hi pata chalega."

(That could be known after meeting her.)

He said and Ditya read out her address.

"Ye media wale bhi hadd krte hai seriously. Agar ye accusations sahi huye toh kya wo aadmi ispe attack nhi krwa skta. Inhone uska kaam aasan kr dia."

(These media are heights. If these accusations are true then he could attack her. They made his work easy.)

Ivaan chuckled humourlessly. It was true. If the allegations the woman had put on him were true then he could finish her in just a minute.

After talking for some time they retired to their rooms and Ivaan sat down with the new book he was reading.

His thoughts went to the girl.

'Why would she put such a big allegation on someone like this? For publicity? She must be mad if it was for publicity.'

'But what if it was not? She is in grave danger then.'

He shook his head to shake off her thoughts and concentrated on his book. Soon, he was lost in the book.

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The next morning he got ready to meet the woman. He was confused whether he should wear his formals or jeans t shirt.

After thinking for about 2 minutes he settled on jeans t shirt.

Telling his parents that he was going for some work he left to her home.

He was shocked to see the area she lived in. It was a very unsafe locality. 

He parked the car and rang her doorbell.
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