
This leads him to rashly charge into Bunty's house and get captured and beat up by his men, cutting a deal with Parulkar which involves lying to the hearing board to exonerate him of Junaid's murder, and intervene with RAW's extraction of Bunty and Nayanika which ends up with both of them dead.

We meet him recently divorced and contemplating suicide, and this is before he gets beat up several times and has his car burned.

Butt-Monkey: During the first half of the series, Sartaj just can't catch a break.Big Bad: Guruji is responsible for the bomb attacks in Mumbai.Gaitonde gets back at him by hiding chicken bones in the rice of the meal, something that would be intolerable to the devout Hindus diners, who beat him up.

Parulkar taunts Sartaj over his wife leaving him, and Shukla, the heavily casteist owner of the Hindu hotel, despite adulterating his food, would constantly berate Gaitonde for not being clean enough, and did not pay him for over two months. By the end of season 1, the casualties among named characters, just in the present, include Gaitonde (right in episode one), Nayanika, Bunty, Katekar, Anjali, and Trivedi.
