Meera's day

BUT — because Priya's confession proved the leak was personal, Heena drafts the parallel Telegram takedown on her own letterhead at a Bandra café and Meera signs as the named complainant, timestamp and notarised corridor photo attached, while a former Jaipur college batchmate — Niharika's older sister Sonam, who has not seen Meera since the engagement-photo comparisons era of 2024 — walks past the window, stops, points through the glass, and mouths 'Meera??' with a half-smile that does not yet know what it is recognising. The embarrassment lands when Sonam comes inside uninvited and asks loudly enough for two other tables to hear, 'so this is what you do in Mumbai now? hosting? I saw your brother's post, he said you were in Dubai,' and Meera chooses silence over correction, which costs her the jaw tightening she cannot hide. The PG boundary-heat beat comes from a man at the counter who has been watching her sign the affidavit and now asks, smiling, 'are you a celebrity?' in a tone that treats her signature as an autograph, and Heena moves her chair between them without comment. The threat arrives at 4pm when the main number the cousin answers pings a single line — 'Heena-ji's café is also in Bandra. Nice weather for notarising' — and Meera reads it twice, pockets the phone, and signals Heena to leave by the back door while she pays the bill in cash. By evening the takedown is filed with the timestamp visible in Heena's portal and Meera has decided Sonam gets the corrected version tomorrow over a phone call, not in a Bandra café with strangers listening.