THE KOLKATA SHADOWS | Chapter 5: The Live Confession
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THE KOLKATA SHADOWS | Chapter 5: The Live Confession
Vikram's hands shook as he held the phone, watching Commissioner Debashish Ghosh's face fill the screen. The man looked decades older than his fifty-eight years—hollow-eyed, defeated, blood trickling from a cut above his eyebrow. Behind him, the woman in the Kali mask stood motionless, a brass statue gleaming in her gloved hands. "Priya, talk to me," Vikram snapped into his other phone. "Where is he?" "We're analyzing the video now, sir. Cyber cell is trying to trace the IP address, but it's bouncing through multiple VPN servers. The stream's coming from a burner account created two hours ago. Forensics is examining the background—looks like an old factory or warehouse, but there are thousands of those in Kolkata's industrial belt." "Look for identifying features. Anything. Graffiti, structural details, sounds in the background—" "Already on it. We have every available unit combing the Tangra, Tiljala, and Garden Reach a…
