Arjun closed the drawer. He looked at the MIS dashboard on her screen—the same one his boss saw every morning. It glowed with confidence: green arrows, rising trends, forecast accuracy of 94%. None of it was real.

Pooja hesitated. Then she opened a drawer. Inside were forty sheets of blank prescription pads—with Dr. Iyengar’s forged stamp.

Arjun did something unorthodox. He opened the raw SQL database behind the MIS—the tables the dashboards were built on. He wrote a query to join prescriber data with patient redemption data with stockist return data . Then he looked at the time stamps.