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Confidence 98.9. Renu Sen closes forty files like this a week without thinking. This one holds two stories about the same address, and after thirteen years she asks to see the audit log.

Trilok Bhasin rounded 381 allocations across six years and never once went outside the permitted band. Meghna Rao ended his career for it. Ten years later she finds him behind a counter in Karol Bagh, selling washers.

The offer comes on paper, under Aisha’s door: a post in the Sector 6 room that decides whose testimony survives into the summary. The arithmetic comes out in favour. She tells nobody for sixteen days.

There is one dhobi in Rajendra Nagar where there were nine. Ram Lal Sonkar teaches his fourteen-year-old son the trade anyway, with no water, on a stone worn hollow by a hundred and forty years of the same motion.