Article 370

📅 13 Feb 2026 | 👁 8 Views

Chapter 1: The Lover Boy of Tral
NIA agent Zooni Haskar poses as a manicurist to blackmail Sabia, the girlfriend of terrorist leader Burhan Wani into providing information about his whereabouts. Using this information, she leads an operation to eliminate him without authorization from her superiors. The operation is successful, and Wani is killed in a gunfight without any of the civilians present at the compound being harmed. This provides separatist leader Yakub Shiekh and his allies an opportunity to portray him as a martyr, and they launch an agitation across the state with covert political backing, as well as replacing Wani with another terrorist leader, Zakir Naikoo. The worsening law and order situation causes Zooni to be reprimanded and transferred to New Delhi.

Chapter 2: A Knock on the Door
Rajeshwari Swaminathan, the Joint Secretary at the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) been questioned about the stability and security of the Kashmir Valley. She meets with Jagmohan Patil, former Governor of Kashmir, to discuss the possibility of abrogating Article 370. She brings the NIA into Kashmir in order to stabilise the situation, which has worsened after the elimination of Burhan Wani, to investigate all terror cases in the state. Later, Salahuddin Jalal (based on Omar Abdullah) arrives at Delhi, and is guarded by Zooni, who was originally based in Kashmir, but was demoted after the neutralisation of Wani. Meanwhile, Parveena Andrabi (Mehbooba Mufti) meets with Rajeshwari to discuss the situation in Kashmir, who criticises the Central Government's operations in Kashmir without the State's approval. Jalal, while going to meet the PM, talks to Zooni, mentioning her father, Kabir (a whistleblower who was framed in the J&K Bank scam), who was found dead in a lake in Kashmir by suicide, much to the frustration of Zooni. The Government of India was unable to investigate the scam due to Article 370. Rajeshwari meets with Zooni, trying to convince her to go back to Kashmir to try to abrogate Article 370. She refuses, but Rajeshwari asks her to sleep on it. After Rajeshwari tells Zooni that Kashmir is now under Governor's Rule, she accepts the offer under the condition that two more people can be on the team.

Chapter 3: Blindspot
Zooni meets her team in Srinagar which includes Namita Chaturvedi, an Assistan Enforcement Officer for the ED, Gaurang Sengupta, a Financial Crime Consultant for the CBI, Ashish Mattoo, and her two requested members. She discusses a stone-pelting incident in Anatang, where youth were handed cash to throw stones. Shamsher Abdali was the primary suspect for the funding. They decide to investigate his dry fruit business if it has any leads, but it fails to obtain any evidence. Zooni, however, suggests that Abdali may be using a different method rather than cash. So they instead raid a dry fruit warehouse, and discover that the workers work for a contractor. After tapping his phone, they discover that code-names are used in phone conversations. All of the code-names used are names of arch-angels in Islam such as Azrael. Among them is one named Jibril, revealed to be Abdali, who is both an ISI agent and double agent working for Khawar, a former senior of Zooni, who reveals his location under pressure. Despite a planned mob placed to stop them by Andrabi, Zooni and the CRPF manage to secure Abdali, who injures himself in custody to stall them for time while Jalal and Andrabi try to form a coalition government and gain control of the Valley once the Governor’s rule is removed. However, the fax machine at the Indian ministry doesn’t work, and President’s rule is imposed on Kashmir, foiling their plans. Zooni learns from Rajeshwari that they plan on abrogating Article 370. Tragedy strikes on 14 February 2019 when her friend Chauhan is killed when the bus carrying him and other Indian army soldiers is bombed by terrorists in revenge.

Chapter 4: Save the Date
Grief-stricken and enraged, Zooni captures and interrogates Yakub Sheikh who reveals that the mastermind of the bombing was Naikoo and she also has Khawar removed from his position for once again, unwittingly aiding the separatists. The government decides to work on abrogating Article 370 as Zooni recovers a vital document hidden in a Kashmir library, integral in removing it. She finds out that a sub-clause 'd' is removed due to historical reasons.

Chapter 5: Sub-clause (d)
After Rajeshwari briefs the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Zooni's team make preparations for handling the numerous problems that can occur in the valley while doing so such as suppressing all forms of social unrest that could be created, arresting all anti-Indian elements in the Valley including Sheikh’s fellow conspirators and separatist leaders as well as keeping the mission a secret from the media, whom they confuse with multiple fake stories, and even tricking the Pakistani military, something Khawar helps them with.

Chapter 6: It Was, It Is, and It Always Will Be
The PM and Home Minister work on passing the bill in the Rajya Sabha, where his party is in minority and faces challenges from the opposition party members while maintaining that Kashmir is a part of India and they have the power of removing the special status. Zooni and her team uncover Naikoo’s plan to kill Jalal as a way to discrediting the Indian Government, causing sanctions to be imposed on the country. As Gaurang poses as Jalal, they leave for a safe house in a convoy which is then attacked by Naikoo and his men, whom the CRPF forces engage with and defeat. The bill passes just as Zooni kills Naikoo, avenging her friend as Article 370 is abrogated.

The PM, Home Minister, Rajeshwari and the NIA team celebrate their victory and mourns those lost in the fight. Zooni finds peace as her father’s case file is reopened for investigation. The end credits show real-life photos of the peace and progress that has since taken place in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.