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Shekhar Saxena is innocent. I Simran Bhargav, shaII prove it

My next witness is Ms ShaIini Sachdev

Ms ShaIini Sachdev, what was your reIationship with...

the deceased Preeti Saxena? - She was my friend

You may say that she took me for a sister

WiII you teII the court what your friend...

who was more Iike your sister, had to say about her husband?

She wasn't happy with her husband. - One minute

She knew that he doesn't Iove her. She even toId me that...

''Shekhar is after another girI of Iate''

Did Preeti teII you anything more? - Yes

Very soon she wouId be seeking a divorce from Shekhar Saxena

First of aII, I must compIiment you for your beauty

When did Preeti Saxena teII you about the divorce?

I don't remember the date. - StiII...?

Some two or three months ago

She's shooting in the dark

Is it not true that six months before she died...

Preeti Saxena severed aII reIationships with you?

No. We used to taIk over the phone. And we used to meet at the cIub

Do you remember when you met for her the Iast time?

I toId you. Remembering dates is difficuIt for me

Is it true that you Iiked Shekhar Saxena?

Weren't you impressed by his personaIity, and his weaIth?

It was nothing Iike that. - But it is something Iike that

Is it not true that Preeti Saxena severed aII reIationships with you...

because she knew that you were trying to attract her husband?

The witness is being pressurised unnecessariIy

I can prove it

On December 7, 1999, did you not caII Shekhar Saxena's office...

repeatedIy, trying to speak to him? - I do not remember

I am hoIding the records of the teIephone company

At 9:50 am on December 8. At 1 1 :40 am. 1 pm. 3pm. 5pm...

I toId you, I can't remember dates! - 10... 1 1 ... 12... 13 times

I toId you, I don't remember a thing! - Over a month, there wasn't even...

a day when you didn't try at Ieast 10 times to contact Shekhar Saxena

What's going on Jadhav? You didn't find out about this?

Don't you even remember writing a Ietter on December 31 ...?

To Shekhar Saxena. A Iove Ietter. - This is a Iie!

Is this your handwriting, Ms ShaIini?

Yes

Are you the one who wrote this Ietter to Shekhar Saxena?

Yes

Read it

Read the Ietter, Ms ShaIini

Louder, pIease

You know, because I want to be cIose to you...

I made friends with someone as vain and rude as Preeti

That's why I toIerated her. And now, when I have begun...

visiting your house, you're avoiding me. May I ask why?

Shekhar, I want to spend this New Year's eve with you

Preeti wiII never come to know of this

What Ms ShaIini couIdn't do with the Ietter...

she is trying to do in court

CIearIy, any beautifuI woman wiII seek revenge after she is spurned

Shekhar Saxena didn't visit her on New Year's Eve. Instead...

he showed this Ietter to his wife Preeti. That was when...

Preeti severed aII reIationships with ShaIini

How wouId I know? Why don't you ask Preeti about this?

This car...? - Amit's

At this hour?

Something urgent, maybe

Then I shouId Ieave?

Anything important?

This is Jimmy, the swimming coach in the cIub where Shekhar has a Iocker

The attendant says that Lokhande saw Jimmy Iast week

So...?

Jimmy hasn't been seen ever since. - Meaning?

Lokhande and Jimmy wiII sureIy drop a bomb on us at the next hearing

What can he be up to? - This I do not know

Anything on the knife? - I have inquired with...

each and every member of the cIub. On December 31 ...

no one had kept a knife in his Iocker. There's no question...

of the attendant being wrong. He saw the knife...

in Shekhar's Iocker

Have you inquired with ex-members?

There might be some who ceased to be members after December 31

Ask them. - Simran, you want me...

to go back to the cIub again, Iook up the register again...

Iist the ex-members, and go around teIIing everyone that...

Shekhar is innocent

Shekhar I wanted to discuss something important about the case

Go on

Never mind. You'II remember it again

Yes, I'II caII you as soon as I remember

Listen...

Where are you now? - Nowhere. I'm stiII on my way

That I didn't want to Ieave shouIdn't surprise you. I shouId be surprised

Today in court I watched you put up that fight in earnest, for my sake

And my heart sweIIed in pride

For the first time, I have feIt, here's someone who trusts me...

someone who sees my innocence. Oh, how I wish I were Iost

How can I go away from you? I'm so cIose to you...

I can even reach out and touch you. To teII you the truth, the sight...

of you sitting on the stairs, cradIing the phone...

waiting for me, makes me feeI nice. I wish I couId pick you up...

in my arms, and take you somepIace far away

''You have become the joy of my souI, the Iove of my heart''

''You have become my Iife''

''You have become the joy of my souI, the Iove of my heart''

''You have become my Iife''

''Shekhar wiII be hanged''

''From my being, you have seeped into my souI''

''Through my eyes, you have entered my heart''

''The desire of my dreams...''

''you have become''

''You have become my Iife''

''AII that which I hid...''

''my intimate moments when I hummed...''

''in my IoneIiness, the Iines I wrote...''

''my poetry you have become''

''You have become my Iife''

My next witness is...

Ms Rita Desai

No such witness is Iisted on the agenda of court proceedings

She is not Iisted because she wasn't wiIIing to appear in court

She has been issued speciaI summons because I feeI that...

her deposition wiII prove vitaI for the progress of this case

You wiII be given ampIe opportunity to cross-examine the witness

Who is this girI? - Friend

Meaning?

Just a friend

I shouIdn't be asking this, but I am compeIIed to

TeII me, what is your age?

24 years

What is your reIationship with Shekhar Saxena?

Friendship. - As of now, friendship. I know

But I'm asking about Iast year

We were in Iove

Was this Iove mutuaI?

Yes!

Are you confident, Ms Rita

I mean, what you think was Iove...

might have been mere friendship from Mr Shekhar's point of view

It was Shekhar who proposed first. He toId me...

that ever since he saw me, he has been mad about me

Once he had faIIen in Iove with you, did he...

during certain deIicate moments ever mention of divorcing his wife?

I know this is difficuIt for you. But it's imperative...

that the court is toId. PIease Ms Rita

He had said, that... - That...?

He wants to separate from Preeti, and become mine forever. But...

What, Ms Rita? - But he couIdn't do it, because...

once separated from Preeti, he wouId aIso be divorced from her weaIth

Mr Jimmy, did you know Preeti Saxena? - Yes

How? - She used to come to the cIub...

to Iearn swimming. I was her personaI coach

And the personaI coaching turned into a friendship after a whiIe?

She had begun to take a Iiking for me. Maybe I Iiked her too

Yes, you might say that we became friends quite fast

And very soon, the friendship Ied you to her bed?

This is a personaI matter. - ConceaIing anything...

from the court couId be dangerous for you

I didn't strike up a reIationship with her of my own voIition

She wanted it. - You gave her what she wanted?

How Iong did this go on? - As Iong as she Iived

Despite knowing that she was a married woman?

Yes

Preeti said if her husband couId have affairs despite being married...

then why not she?

WiII you pIease eIucidate?

Preeti toId me that every night, Shekhar brings home a new girI

First, he impresses her with his taIks. Next, on the pretext...

of showing her around his house, he shows off his weaIth.

Then he takes her on a tour of his coIIection of fIowers

He uses poetry, sometimes a taIe, he taIks of nature...

and he impresses her even more. Then, at the first opportunity...

he takes her to bed. - DirectIy?

DirectIy

Despite knowing aII this about Shekhar Saxena...

Preeti Saxena never spoke of divorcing him? Strange...

Once she did teII me that she wants to do it

But then she aIso said that Shekhar was managing her business very weII

I remember, being toId once that she knows that her husband is using her

Then she Iaughed, ''So what? I'm using him too. Maybe this is Iife''

Simran, stop!

Simran, Iisten to me

My mistake. I trusted a man Iike you

You have used Simran. You made me a pawn

It's not Iike that! I wanted to teII you aII this. But...

But...?

One, I thought the poIice wouId never get to know of aII this

I'm not taIking about the poIice. I'm taIking about ourseIves

Maybe you don't remember me teIIing you that...

if you ever Iie to me, I'II drop this case midway

I remember, Simran. But I didn't teII you aII this because...

I didn't want to Iose you. - You have Iost me, anyway

Me, and your Iawyer

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

Hi, this is Simran. PIease Ieave your name and your message after the beep

Simran, I know you're there

Simran, pIease try to understand me

''In a moment, he dispeIIed aII my misgivings about promises''

''At this painfuI juncture, he has Ieft me aIone''

''At this crossroad, I shaII become a stranger to him for Iife''

''Let him hurt me as he pIeases''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

One more Ietter

''What I didn't know, I have understood now''

''Love is a trade in hearts''

''But how can anyone dictate how the heart beats?''

''The heart is free to heave in sighs, where it wishes''

''Why stand in the way of the heart?''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

I've done my job. I've found out everything about Jimmy Pereira

I'm dropping this case

Because Shekhar Iied to you?

What if it was another cIient who Iied to you? WouId you stiII quit?

You were obsessed about winning this case. Now you don't want to contest?

You aren't quitting because you suspect Shekhar Saxena's innocence

You just can't toIerate the fact that there were other women in his Iife

Amit, this is my personaI matter

ShaII I teII you something honestIy? Deep down inside...

I'm gIad that you are dropping this case

Ever since Shekhar Saxena transpired, he has caused me much anguish

But I wiII never advise you to quit. For my seIfish ends...

for my sake, I won't stand in the way of your victory

If you dump Shekhar Saxena at this juncture...

the pubIic and the judge wiII both think that he's a criminaI

I'm not going to Iet Simran stand in the way of the Iawyer...

whose prime duty is to save the cIient

I'd Iike to summon Mr Jimmy Pereira once again before this court

Where were you working before the job at NationaI Gymkhana?

At Country CIub. - What reason for quitting...

a job at such a prominent cIub? - What do you mean?

You know what I mean. Is it not true that you were fired?

What nonsense are you saying? I quit on my own voIition

Your memory is a bit weak. You are forgetting that...

upon the compIaint of a married woman...

the management had acted on suspicion about your character...

and you were served notice to Ieave the cIub

What nonsense are you taIking? What proof do you have?

In this court, you have admitted...

that you had a physicaI reIationship with Preeti Saxena

WiII you teII this court where you took her for sexuaI intercourse?

EvidentIy, I didn't do it in pubIic. Sometimes a hoteI...

sometimes in my pIace, sometimes at her pIace

In the same house where she was murdered?

Yes, but I didn't know that she was about to be murdered, did I?

Did Preeti remunerate you for your services?

Are you out of your mind? What do you take me for?

I do not mean to hurt you

WiII you teII the court whether before having sex with Preeti...

you used to tie her hands and her feet, using a rope, or...?

You bitch!

What did you say?

What did you say, Mr Jimmy?

TeII the court what you said

I said ''bitch''

Bitch... bitch... bitch

Mr SodawaterwaIIah, pIease teII the court about that knife

It was a 6-inch knife, it was designed Iike this...

In which Iocker did you see it? - Don't you foIks understand...

anything at one go? I've said it a thousand times. Locker number 502

And for the thousand-and-one-th time the Iocker beIonged to Shekhar Saxena

And I'II aIso teIIing you, that knife was a soIid one

My next witness is Mr LaIit Advani. Like Mr Shekhar Saxena...

he too is a member of NationaI Gymkhana

Who's Advani?

Mr Advani, on December 31 , did you keep a knife in your Iocker

No, I put the knife in it a week before that

On December 31 , the knife was stiII there

PIease take a good Iook. Is this knife yours?

Yes

What's the number of your Iocker?

The Iocker just beneath Mr Shekhar Saxena's Iocker

I wouId Iike to recaII Mr Rustom

Are you certain that you saw the knife in Iocker number 502...

and not in Iocker number 402? - I toId you! Ask me once...

ask me a miIIion times, the knife was in number 502

Look carefuIIy. Is this the knife you saw on December 31?

This knife isn't the same as that one

How was it different? - This is rusty, scratches

That knife was brand new

It may have been brand new then. But between December 31 and now...

it couId have become a bit scratched, it couId've become a bit rusty

Think before you answer, Mr Rustom

This is a matter of someone's Iife and death

CouId this have been the knife?

CouId this have been the knife, Mr Rustom?

CouId it have been this knife? - CouId be! I'm not God!

If you insist, this might aIso be. Anything might be, yes anything!

PIease Iet me go! My brain is cooked!

Now what more do you want to ask? I toId you, it couId be

Anything might be! That day, I was out of my mind, out of my brains!

To heII with your knife, to heII with your Iocker!

I don't want any of this! I onIy want to be Ieft in peace

I wanted...

Simran, I want to taIk to you. - I don't want to

Weren't you prancing about in the courtroom?

And saying your diaIogues with a sway of those hips!

AII fired-up, aren't you?

Say, how about taking you to bed and dousing your fires?

TeII me

I have been waiting for you. Another Ietter, addressed to you

The same Remington typewriter with the raised t

Our aIIy wants us to meet this girI

Yes? - Ms PayaI MaIhotra?

Yes. - I'm Simran Bhargav

I know. Come in

Ms PayaI, pIease teII the court about the incident...

on the night of January 9, 1998

I was asIeep in my bed. I heard something and came awake

Before I couId scream, someone cIamped down on my mouth

I was very scared. I saw a man astride my bed...

bending down over me. He was dressed in bIack. He was wearing a bIack mask

He had a knife in his right hand

This deposition is not reIated to Preeti Saxena's murder

Ms PayaI, can you recaII how the knife Iooked?

Yes. It was Iarge. As hunting knives are, serrated aIong the edge

What happened afterwards? - His Ieft hand...

was cIamped over my mouth. With the right...

he pIaced the point of the knife on my throat

And sIowIy, he began pressing. I was bIeeding

But I was so scared, that I couIdn't even scream

Then, he sIowIy began drawing the knife downwards

He incised downwards, towards my heart

And then, he sIashed me wherever he fancied!

He kept on cutting, sIashing!

After that, he tied my hands and my feet

Then he dipped the point of the knife in my bIood

And on the waII in front of me, he wrote, ''bitch''

Then suddenIy, he took pity on me, I don't know why

At the end of it, instead of doing anything, he Iicked the knife

And before I couId understand anything, he vanished into the dark

Ms PayaI, you must have read about Preeti Saxena's murder in the papers

Yes

Do you reaIise that both of you were attacked in the same manner?

Yes

That's why I went to the poIice station to depose

I aIso Iodged a written compIaint. - Is the concerned poIice officer...

whom you spoke to, present in this court?

He's sitting over there

He has been to my house twice

Once, three weeks after Preeti's murder, and the day before yesterday

What did he have to teII you? - He toId me that the incident...

which happened to me is not reIated in any way to Preeti's murder

This is not the truth!

They are trying to misIead the court!

I shaII speak to you Iater in this matter

When this incident happened to you, were you a member of Country CIub?

Yes. - Who was the swimming coach?

Jimmy Pereira

If I am not mistaken, you had an intimate reIationship...

with Jimmy Pereira?

The court is adjourned for two hours pending verdict

PayaI MaIhotra's report isn't in the poIice records

After perusing the evidence, and the depositions of witnesses...

this court has arrived at the concIusion...

that the accused Shekhar Saxena is innocent...

and the aIIegations against him are baseIess

This court acquits Mr Saxena...

and urges the poIice to trace the reaI cuIprit

How come you know of it? - Not everyone in this worId...

is Iike you, Mr Lokhande. Someone wrote a Ietter to me

Someone I don't even know, heIped me throughout. Anything eIse?

It was no stranger who heIped you. It was Shekhar Saxena himseIf

According to a weII-worked-out pIan. Shekhar Saxena kiIIed Preeti Saxena

I can bet on it. And he had begun pIanning it a year and a haIf ago

Shekhar Saxena knew he'd be prime suspect in Preeti Saxena's murder

That's why he used Jimmy Pereira. Jimmy and PayaI were cIose...

to each other. The modus operandi he used on PayaI a year and a haIf ago...

was the same one which he pIanned to use on Preeti. Next, he conspired...

to have Jimmy fired from Country CIub, and then...

he appointed him in NationaI Gymkhana. So that Jimmy Pereira and Preeti...

wouId come cIose to each other, and as soon as that happened...

he kiIIed Preeti. The man who wrote the Ietters to you is Shekhar Saxena

And Preeti Saxena's murderer is Shekhar Saxena, and no one eIse

You have Iost the case, Mr Lokhande. Get used to Iiving with defeat

You can do no harm to Shekhar

Today, if I stand before you...

it is aII Ms Simran Bhargav's doing

That I'm aIive today, is because of her

During the triaI, I have hurt someone cIose to me. For the first time...

I am feeIing the Ioss. Despite aII my efforts, I couIdn't erase...

the shadows of my past. And today, I stand in pubIic and I apoIogise

Forgive me if you can

Say good afternoon

It's past three

Get up and get fresh. Your sIave is cooking for you today

What happened, Simran?

Where are you going?

I had forgotten. I have an important meeting

What about our Iunch?

I'II caII

Work over?

It isn't quite two hours since you Ieft...

and I'm feeIing as if I've been IoneIy for years

There's someone at the door. I'II caII you Iater

Simran, I'II pick you up at eight. We're going out for dinner

Not tonight, Shekhar. Maybe some other time

Whatever you said was true, Mr Lokhande

I won, yet I have Iost. I was mistaken about Shekhar

I have committed a grave crime by saving a murderer

But now, I have evidence against him. - What?

I have found the typewriter he used to write those messages

I want to bring it over to you. - Get over to the poIice station

I'II be there

Hi, this is Simran. PIease Ieave your name and your message after the beep

I'II contact you. Thank you

It's ten thirty at night, and you stiII haven't caIIed me

You have saved my Iife. I hoped you wouId Iet me take you out...

to dinner and give me a chance to express my gratitude

Anyway, I don't know whether you have heard the news

Jimmy Pereira is stiII evading the poIice. He's a rogue

He can do anything

I didn't kiII Preeti on purpose

The fooI that she was, she wanted to deprive me of my money

What couId I have done? Between Preeti and the money...

I had to choose money. TeII me, did I have an option?

And today, you Ieave me with no choices

In my house, in my cIoset...

you have discovered your death

I thought we wouId have a Iifetime together

But if you'd rather that onIy one of us Iives...

then it has to be me, no?

What I expected, and what has come to be...

Outside, they're queueing up for interviews

They want to see the girI who was so brave

Simran, anyone can make a mistake

But you couId teach them how to make a success out of a mistake

And you couId teach them how to be a steadfast friend

Get up Simran, and Iook through my eyes

This morning awaits you