sanjay contemplates possible danger to his wife manali (rukhsar rehman and asks her to leave for her village. at the railway station he encounters the stoneman again, trying to kill another roadside man. before he can catch him, kedar with his team arrives and shoots sanjay in the thigh, thinking him to be the killer. sanjay escapes and the incident brings him closer to his wife who nurses his wounds. a search is out in the city for sanjay now, who goes into hiding. he researches and realizes the killer himself is a policeman, from a tribe, performing tantric rituals to cure impotency that calls for human sacrifices. he asks his trusted cop kamble to tell this to aig satam, giving his research documents as evidence. in the climax, it is shown that mohammed was only an ex convict deployed by kedar as a decoy to roam the streets at the latter's orders, and kamble turns out to be the killer stoneman when sanjay arranges to meet him. kamble attacks sanjay with a stone about to commit his ninth and last murder, but both are saved by the police (kedar and team). in a trap laid by the police in the hospital, when kamble sneaks in to kill sanjay, he is nabbed and the matter is closed. satam and phadke decide to hush up the case. kamble is shot and buried in the jungle by sanjay at satam's orders. he tells sanjay that he cannot be taken back into the police force.