The villagers later found out that the Collector, together with the MLA, the DGP and the Judge, had taken for themselves some 150 million rupees allocated by the government to build the wall.
When the villagers, led by Citizen's father, Subramani, go to the collector's office to ask about its status, the collector turned them away, saying a wall cannot be built in that area as the number of people is too small. The area's MLA had promised to build a wall in exchange for votes. Therefore, it is often flooded by the rise in water levels, causing deaths. It was a hamlet of some 700 inhabitants surrounded by the sea. In the trial, a flashback scene appears where Citizen tells the court what happened in his village, Attipatti. CBI officers arrive at the forest and, after some chase, finally manage to arrest the Citizen. In the forest, Indhu comes to meet Abdullah and reveals she already knew he was Citizen some time ago and that she still likes him in spite of that. The CBI officers receive information that Citizen is hiding in Tada forest and go after him. However, at the same moment, Citizen had already kidnapped the DGP. There she finds out Citizen's next target is DGP Devasagayam. Sarojini discovers Citizen's secret operation room within the mosque. With the CBI officers prepare to ambush Abdullah in a mosque, he manages to escape via a secret route. Sarojini concludes that Arivanandam and Anthony are the same person, and he is Citizen, and her further investigation leads her to Abdullah. Father Kuriakose informs Sarojini, based on church records, a boy named Anthony was baptised on the same year the atrocity happened, and that he eventually went on to obtain Law degree.
STAR CITIZEN ITA VERIFICATION
After a quick verification with the last census, they found out one name is missing in the tombstone, a five-year-old named Arivanandam. Buried with them is also a tombstone bearing the names of all who perished. They are presumably the former inhabitants of Attipatti. She and her team are horrified to find hundreds of dead bodies buried deep under. After reading the letter in the box, Sarojini instructs digging near the coastal area where Attipatti once located. In a visit to the Lutheran Chapel, Sarojini and her team meet Father Kuriakose who inform them that Father Louis had passed away 10 years ago, but left a box to be handed over to whichever government body that comes to the church and asks about Attipatti. He tells them to visit Lutheran Chapel's Father Louis, who knew every single person of Attipatti. Through a piece of information given by the Tanjavur office, the CBI team track down a former employee of the local government, which Attipatti was under. He scolds her and says that she doesn't know who he really is and the pain he endures in his heart. Meanwhile, Abdullah becomes irritated with Indhu, who keeps longing for his affection. She becomes certain that the kidnapper, too, has a link to Attipatti.
She then visits the main collector's office in Tanjavur and is shocked to find out that the village Attipatti existed in records before 1973, but not in the years after that. However, a check with the Mayiladuthurai sub-collector's office and Nagapattinam collector's office found that there is no town or village in the area named Attipatti. Sarojini finds out that both kidnap victims worked together in the Mayavaram division some years ago, and was involved in a riot that happened in Attipatti. With these two high-profile kidnappings, the case is handed over to CBI, led by Senior Officer Sarojini Harichandran. In both kidnaps, Abdullah mentions ‘Attipatti’, which seemed to render his victims speechless. Later on, Abdullah proceeds to kidnap Collector Santhanam by posing as freedom fighter Sundaramoorthy. In a massive street protest by lawyers across the city, Abdullah, in altered appearance, kidnaps Judge Vedhachalam, after introducing himself as ‘Citizen’. A computer science student named Indhu develops a crush on him and tries to woo him, although Abdullah has nothing of it. He also gives casual legal advice to the locals.
Abdullah runs a motorcycle workshop with a few workers.