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Collateral Damage

Disclaimer: This story is pure fiction and has absolutely no connection with any actual incident.   Today 7:30 AM Pune city is not known to rise as early as Mumbai. The people are a bit laid back. On this day life was just starting when the police stormed Nafisa Rashid’s single bedroom flat at Abeeda apartments in Kondhwa. She was a fairly attractive woman of average height in her early forties. She was alone at that time and resisted arrest. The police asked her for an identity proof. She showed a driving license. Thrusting a search warrant in her face, her house was searched. A few minutes later the police found her old Burmese passport. The validity date on the passport as well as the visa had expired. She was told that she was being arrested for overstaying in India. She had no choice but to give herself up.   At the police station she was asked what she did for a living, who her handlers were and what secrets she had shared with them. How much she was paid and how lon