Close Apart (Chapter-17)

Close Apart

Chapter17

“Difficult Times Lie Ahead…”

Aditya somehow started being regular to his work once again, Manish & Komal were trying all the time to make him feel normal, if not happy.

“Boss calling!” Mr. Mehta signaled Aditya as he wheezed out of Mr. Arora’s cabin.

“Sir you called me.”

“Yes Aditya. There is something important in the British Council, and they’ve called us.”

“You mean you and me?”

“Well that’s pretty much the same thing”

“Sir it’s not my specialization and I am not even the British Council team so…”

“Aditya! For how long do you think that you’ll avoid the fact? Don’t look surprised, Komal told me everything the other day. Look Aditya, I can realize through what situation you are going right now. But why are you forgetting one thing? That life waits for no one! And if you are not moving with it, then you’ll be left behind! Gather yourself up Aditya; don’t let any thing come between you and your life! Now get ready and get going!”

“Where are your car keys?”

“I didn’t get you…”

“Well I recall you saying that we two are going! So you come outside and I’ll bring your car out of the parking.”

“That’s the spirit!”

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“Please wait here for a minute; he’s in a meeting right now.”

The new receptionist was still having a hard time in finding the information

“She’ll get used to it” Mr. Arora said as if to make himself clear to Aditya.

Aditya thought “Yes, she will. But what about me?”

“Excuse me, Mr. Arora, you can go in.”

Aditya had never been to Mr. Malhotra’s office before. It was a big office with separate arrangements for both formal and informal meetings. Aditya took a look around the cabin. They were accompanied by a couple of lawyers on the adjacent chairs. The atmosphere felt a little spooky to Aditya.

“So, Mr. Malhotra, what are we here to discuss!”

“Mr. Arora, I am very sorry to inform you that there has been some data leakage from our secured database.”

“How is that possible? Is the librarian software is working properly?” Mr. Arora was anxious.

“There’s more to come, the migration of data, which has cost us a lot, has been validated by the software itself. Many of our publications have been unscrupulously pirated for easy money, when we realized this misdeed, our network administrator Mr. Bakshi traced back the linking IP address and we found something interesting.” Mr. Malhotra paused.

“What was that?” Mr. Arora was not able to get the point Mr. Malhotra seemed to stress at.

“You’ll know, first tell me, this gentleman…”

“Aditya”

“Aditya, is he in your British Council team?”

“No, but…”

“But he was here, right here inside our server room, to fix the problem which now Mr. Bakshi verified was a fixed plan.”

“What are you trying to say Mr. Malhotra?”

“All I am trying to say is Aditya sneaked a Trojan in our server and used that to control the software, taking out valuable information to sell them to his associates.”

“This is bull-shit!!” Aditya went out of control.

“Stop that Aditya!” Mr. Arora was quick

“Sir you know I’d never do such a thing…”

“I know, Mr. Malhotra, before abusing us with such charges, I would suggest you to gather some proofs.”

“Thank god, I have such intelligence, I’ve already sent our network administrator with police and a search warrant to your office, and he’s sure that he’ll find enough evidences to justify our charges. Till then I’ll have to ask you two to wait outside”

Mr. Arora & Aditya came out of the office with tensed faces. As Mr. Arora sank in one of the couches in the lounge, he said.

“I warned you Aditya!!”

“But sir I did not upload Trojan in their server, all I did was uploading a tiny Trojan in the reception computer just to have a chat with Amrita! You know sir I’ll never do such things!”

“There is no time to be wasted in arguments, call Manish immediately and ask him to eliminate any trace of the Trojan from your computer”

Aditya took out his cell phone from his pocket and saw that there were 5 missed calls from Manish.

“It’s too late…” Aditya chocked out.

“Here is the person, officers, arrest him!” Mr. Arun Bakshi stormed in with cops

“Mr. Aditya Mehra, you are under arrest for stealing private information out of a secure network. You have got right to call your lawyer and inform him about the legal correspondence.”