The Shadow War intensified as the final year of British rule dawned. One particularly audacious plot involved a sophisticated attempt to incite a major communal riot in a strategic port city, hoping to provoke widespread chaos that would "prove" India's inability to govern itself. British agents, working through local criminal elements, distributed weapons and inflammatory pamphlets on both sides of the religious divide.
Adav's network, however, intercepted the communications. His agents, led by a former Ghadarite named Ravi Singh, meticulously tracked the British operatives, identified their local contacts, and gathered irrefutable evidence of their involvement. Instead of confronting them directly, Adav chose a more devastating approach.
On a predetermined night, Ravi's teams moved. They didn't engage in violence. Instead, they infiltrated the British agents' safe houses, collecting their ledgers, coded messages, and the funds allocated for the riot. Simultaneously, they exposed the British agents' identities to their own criminal contacts, making it appear as if the agents had double-crossed them. The British agents found themselves not only exposed but targeted by the very elements they had hoped to control. Several were quietly apprehended by Adav's forces and held in secure, undisclosed locations.
The next day, Swarajya Party newspapers, armed with the undeniable evidence provided by Adav, published exposés of the British plots, complete with copies of intercepted documents and confessions (obtained through unconventional, but non-lethal, means). The scandal was immense, shaking the British public's faith in their government's honorable withdrawal. The Viceroy, humiliated, issued a stern internal directive, effectively ending overt intelligence operations against India. Adav had not only neutralized the threat but had turned it into a powerful public relations victory for the Swarajya Party, solidifying the perception of a capable, vigilant, and unified future Indian state. The path to August 15, 1930, was now clear of its last major obstacles.