The president of the local Zilla Parishad Narayana Gowda (Vajramuni) reaches the spot with a businessman, Amar (Devaraj), and grants the crew permission to continue filming.

Sathya then reveals his real identity of Shankar, a CBI officer who, with his team have come down to the town to unearth the murder case of Santosh (Shashikumar), having been closed down previously by the local police calling it a suicide.

In a series of flashback sequences as narrated to Shankar by the potential suspects as part of the investigation, it is seen that Santosh was a dancer who was given a ticket by a political party to contest at the local Zilla Parishad elections.

Foreseeing his win, the opposition political party led by Gowda plans on giving him cash in return for his withdrawal.

Basya tails him and involves him in a fistfight, and shockingly finds Amar stabbing Santosh from behind, killing him.