This story is around the year 1979, Charlie was fond of photography since childhood.
His father was a man of very modest financial condition but still, Charlie got a camera of his choice to fulfil every wish. Because his father used to fulfil all his wishes even though he was poor.
By the time he was young, Charlie became a trained photographer and started earning money by doing freelancing photography.
He had the best camera of his time, the Pentax K1000, which was the best for novice photographers, this camera had a 35mm film roll, it was an SLR type camera. The K1000 only had three shooting controls: focus, aperture, and shutter speed, which helped encourage newcomers to pick up this camera. Its completely mechanical metal body is used to shoot without any problem.
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The pictures sent by Charlie were well received by a very famous daily newspaper of that time, one day Charlie was called by the chief editor Mr Richard who was also the co-owner of that newspaper and offered him the job of a photographer.
In those days it was a great honour for the youth to work in this newspaper, this newspaper used to cover Investigating News. Charlie was also given the job of investigative journalist cum photographer in the newspaper. This was his wish since childhood and Charlie's dream came true.
A month after the start of the job, Mr Richard called Charlie and said that he wanted to send him on a special mission, in which there was a risk of his life, would you like to go on this mission?
Charlie said sir, I did your job as a news reporter because I love adventure, and life has to end at some point, why not live it like a brave man.
Mr Richard told him that first you are being sent on special training for 15 days, after that you will be given all the details related to the mission, prepare to go.
Charlie was given 15 days of self-defence, photographic tricks, change of disguise, and some fighting technical skills, which he learned through hard work.
In fact, Mr Richard was told by reliable sources that the government of the country was going to conduct a sting operation to expose the bribes paid to a politician by middlemen in the purchase of some defence materials.
This politician was a very influential and criminal type of person, so the investigating agencies were secretly granted permission by the President directly to do this operation. And this operation was being kept very secret even by the agency, only 3 or 4 people knew about it.
But the newspapers have to leave their informers around, so Mr Richard also came to know about this secret operation of the investigative agencies.
Mr Richard is also a patriotic person and he also did not want anyone else to know about this secret sting operation of the investigating agency being covered by his photographer.
That's why he didn't want to tell anyone but Charlie about this coverage campaign. But this campaign was interfered with by middlemen, criminal politicians, and arms sellers, so he got his journalist - photographer trained, so that he could defend his life when needed.
Mr Richard got information just 2 hours ago that for doing this sting operation by the government investigative agency, the honey trap is also being planned.
For which the agency had prepared two robber women who were serving their sentence in jail, by assuring them to pardon, the investigating agency was going to send these two women as representatives of fake arms seller.
This deal was to be done yesterday at 7 o'clock in the morning, in a fort-like house in the middle of the forest, around which there was much security, the process of cars started coming from the morning itself, the mother of the house was on that roof.
An umbrella shed was built under it, both women, politicians, and middlemen had come under it, the real currency was brought in a suitcase, and both women were wearing very sexy dresses and looked like angels. The middleman was actually an agent of the government investigative agency who had come to arrest the politician red-handed with a bribe. all of them sit on the sofas and take drinks.
Charlie was also climbing a tree at a distance of 100 meters from that place and he could clearly see the scene there with the telescope of his camera. Charlie clearly saw that there was a drink before starting the deal, after that the corrupt politician started kissing and clinging to one of them ladies.
Charlie was taking all the pictures with his camera, after some time the politician was given the suitcase full of notes and as soon as the politician took it, the agent of the investigating agency tried to arrest him, but he started shouting and immediately his bodyguards came up and there was a fierce fight, all these scenes were captured by Charlie in his camera.
Both the women and the agent were also injured in the scuffle, seeing the opportunity, the politician fled from there.
Meanwhile, a watchman's eyes fell on Charlie, and he warned Charlie to come down, Charlie cleverly changed the roll of the camera before coming down, and jumped from the tree and started running, the guard was running after him.
To deceive the guard, he threw his camera on the other side. Now the watchman left him and went behind the camera, till then Charlie disappeared from there and somehow reached his office falling down, after reaching there he told about the whole incident to Mr Richard.
He congratulated Charlie and said do not talk about this to anybody, give me the roll of the camera.
The next day, after developing the camera roll with his own hands, prepared two copies of the pictures taken out of it and sealed a set in an envelope and gave it to the Honorable President himself.
The President said, come, Richard, sit with me, I think I did not make any mistake by sending the news of the sting to you, I am proud of your work.
And so with the President's efforts, Mr Richard's clever planning and Charlie's courageous act, a corrupt politician is exposed and jailed.