Ravi freezes.
"You’re not Sharma."
Wait — the real warden?
Baba leans forward, chains rattling. "You think I'm the prisoner, boy? Look at your own file." Peharedaar S7 -2024- Epi 1 - 4 HitPrime www web...
Ravi opens his personnel file for the first time. A faded note at the bottom: "Father’s name: Vikrant Fauji. Inmate 407."
CCTV footage from the previous night shows nothing. But Ravi notices a discrepancy: at 2:17 AM, the power grid dips by 0.3 seconds. Enough for a door to unlock silently.
That night, Ravi walks Block D. 407’s cell is at the end — a steel door with no window, just a small flap. As he slides the meal tray through, a whisper comes from inside. Ravi freezes
He hides in the morgue tunnel entrance. At 2:15 AM, he hears footsteps. Not from the prison — from below.
On Night 4, Ravi finds a paper crane under his duty cot. Unfolds it. Inside, in neat handwriting: "Ask him about the tunnel."
A low laugh. "The one under the warden's bungalow. Dug in 1982. Leads to the old morgue. But that's not the secret. The secret is who comes up through it." "You think I'm the prisoner, boy
Ravi ignores him for three nights. But other prisoners start acting strange. A murderer in Cell 212 stops eating. A human trafficker starts crying at 3 AM exactly.
He returns to 407’s door. "What tunnel?"
Sinha isn't a warden. He’s a smuggler who took over the prison to free Baba — not because Baba is a criminal, but because Baba knows the location of 50 crores in unmarked bills hidden during a riot ten years ago.
Ravi Shukla, a 28-year-old suspended paramilitary officer, arrives at Devipur Central Jail. His new posting: Head Guard, Night Shift, Block D — the "silent block." The previous guard, Sharma, resigned overnight. No notice. No forwarding address.