Call Parameters
Source number: [REDACTED — monitored line designated KC-09]. Destination: [REDACTED — designated NS-02]. Call initiated 21:02, 13 April 2025. Duration: 4 minutes, 17 seconds. Both parties identified from prior voice pattern analysis and call history.
Note: This intercept was conducted under an authorisation originally targeting financial irregularities associated with the monitored line. The content of this call was escalated by the monitoring analyst on the evening of 14 April 2025 following the police report from 14 Tughlak Lane.
Transcript (verbatim)
KC 21:02:14
You're calling me back. Good.
NS 21:02:18
I'm calling you back because I want to be very clear about something.
KC 21:02:26
Then be clear.
NS 21:02:29
Three crore was not what we agreed. We agreed on the data services fee — what I've already paid. You're inventing a new number.
KC 21:02:45
What you've paid was the service charge. What I'm asking for now is the silence charge. That was always going to be a separate line item. You know that.
NS 21:03:03
That's not what — [pause] — who are you sending the package to?
KC 21:03:11
You already know. We've spoken about it. The journalist. The Hindu. By six in the morning on the fifteenth, if I don't have confirmation.
NS 21:03:22
Three crore. On election eve. You don't seriously think —
KC 21:03:29
I think you'll come to the meeting tomorrow and we'll have a civilised conversation about it. You're welcome to bring a cheque book.
NS 21:03:41
And if I don't?
KC 21:03:44
Then the journalist gets her story, the election gets suspended, and you spend the next decade explaining twenty-three thousand ghost voters to a tribunal. Your choice.
NS 21:03:58
You've been doing this for thirty years.
KC 21:04:04
I have. And I'm still here. Goodnight, Colonel.
NS 21:04:08
[No response. Call terminated from NS-02 end.]
Analyst Notes (IB Internal)
Both parties known to monitoring. The "package" refers to a physical document file. "The journalist — The Hindu" — one known contact of the monitored line (KC-09) with a registered media organisation is an individual with initials AK, employed at The Hindu, New Delhi.
The reference to "twenty-three thousand ghost voters" is consistent with Electoral Commission anomaly data pertaining to Haryana by-election constituencies (separately documented, ECI).
This transcript was escalated to the investigating officer on 15 April 2025. The monitoring authorisation predated the incident at 14 Tughlak Lane.