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1980: A low-level party member Chengalarayudu was dedicated to his regional leader and party, to the extent that he is working for a party meeting when his wife goes into labour. Accidentally, the leader comes to the area of Chengalarayudu's house, and he lends his car to take Chengalarayudu's wife to the labour ward. The delivery happens safely inside the car.

1996: Chengalarayudu's son Venkanna secures the first rank in his 10th standard state exam, and visits the leader, who is now the chairman of the party and a member of the ruling coalition for his blessings with his father. While they are waiting in the party office for the leader to come in, they witness an accidental murder of a rebel in the party, by their own revered leader due to caste-related comments by the rebel on him. When the leader asks Chengalarayudu to take the blame by saying that he killed the man due to rage about the rebel's comments, Venkanna volunteers to take the blame and is willing to go to prison, citing the leniency of juvenile laws in exchange for an MLA seat for his father in the upcoming by-elections. The deal is accepted and Venkanna goes to prison and Chengalarayudu later becomes an MLA.

2015: Trainee IPS officers Dhruva, Gautham, Ranveer and Karan discreetly assist the police in catching a gang which kidnapped four girls. One day, Dhruva receives a cryptic text message on his phone from an anonymous number stating that he/she is aware of their discreet activities. In the evening, they go out to meet that person who is revealed to be forensic pathologist and Dhruva's girlfriend Ishika. Later that same night, they happen to witness the murder of a social activist named Ramarao with the pretense of snatch theft. Dhruva and his friend catch the gang and their leader and hand them over to the police. 4 days later, the leader of the gang arrives at the IPS headquarters with the Home minister. This political and organised crime comes as a shock to Dhruva and his friends.

Dhruva takes them to his house and shows his research on connecting all small unrelated incidents into the global view of a hidden crime network, who bend the law for their own financial benefits. He singles out three prominent business persons namely pharmaceutical mogul Dheeraj Chandra, mining mogul Jayanth Suri and businessman named Irfan Ali. When he tries following one, he realizes that all three of them work as a group, and they all work for a wealthy and influential scientist Siddharth Abhimanyu. After the completion of his training, Dhruva is awarded medals for specializing in dealing with organized crime during training and also for being the best probationer of the batch, and is posted as the ASP of the Organized Crime Unit.

Dhruva discovers that Siddharth is Venkanna. After his release from prison, Venkanna had his name changed and left India to complete his education abroad. After his graduation, he returned to India and is now a well-established scientist. Siddharth uses the medical field for the wrong reasons and for his own profit. Chengalarayudu is now the incumbent Health Minister in the minority government headed by the party leader, who is now the CM of Andhra Pradesh. At that time, Angelina, a Swiss pharmaceutical company owner and activist, tries to make generic medicines for life-threatening diseases available in India at low cost affordable by poor people. Siddharth's assassin Abbas kills Angelina before she can sign the agreement document with the government and shoots Dhruva at the same time. While he is recovering from the gunshot wound in the hospital, an electronic bug (GPS + audio transmitter) is implanted during surgery. Through the bug, Siddharth listens to Dhruva's plans and continuously monitors his whereabouts and conversations via audio transmission. Dhruva receives evidence against Siddharth in the form of Akshara.

Akshara was a scientist at Siddharth's research lab, where a seaweed that can cure diabetes is found abundantly in the oceans. Siddharth tries to sell the technology and rights to extract medicine from the seaweed to multinational pharmaceutical companies but is opposed by Akshara. Siddharth hires goons and kill her. But before being killed, she records a video and stores it in an SD card so that someone will find it. But before Dhruva can find the card, Siddharth finds out and assigns Abbas to recover the card, but Dhruva tells Gautham to get the card. He successfully gets the card after a fight with Abbas, but through the bug, Siddharth knows this and kills Gautham.

Dhruva arrives back to his special house where he finds a pin that has been changed in a picture which turns out to be the picture of Naina, who was Miss World 2011 and a close acquaintance of Siddharth whose girlfriend Preethi was also part of that event. Dhruva doubts whether Siddharth himself would have come to his house. Ishika checks the fingerprints on the pin keeping the gun case Dhruva received from Siddharth in his posting ceremony, and the fingerprints match. A flashback reveals that Siddharth killed Preethi's father so that she would not participate in the competition, and as she will not have a ticket to go to her father's funeral, he offers to take her in his chartered flight and wins her over. Dhruva frantically searches for the bug, which he eventually finds and removes.

Dhruva captures Abbas and records all the information from him. He drugs Abbas and manipulates Siddharth into killing him. At the same time, Chengalarayudu reads the changed medical report, which contains very good medical contracts for public welfare and multiple accusations against the CM. When Siddharth learns about this, he asks Chengalarayudu to pretend to have a stroke and move outside to the hospital. The ruling party forces Chengalarayudu either to resign within 24 hours or he will be dismissed. Dhruva appeals to the CM that he has evidence and wants to arrest Siddharth, and he is granted permission to do so. Hence Siddarth kills his father using his goons in an accident and forces the CM to stop actions against him, or he will lie that the CM killed his father for personal vengeance. But the next day, at his father's state funeral, Dhruva arrests him on the CM's orders.

When Siddharth is arrested, Dhruva tells him that the medicine was patented in Akshara's name (despite Siddarth being the inventor) and will be made as generic medicine instead of a patent-protected one. It is also revealed that Chengalarayudu is still alive, saved by Dhruva and his gang and the public funeral held was for Gautham. Dhruva makes a deal that he would save Siddharth's life for information and evidence on all of his criminal associates and activities and gives him a bulletproof vest to fake his death during his transport to the court. They also plan to take down the setup planned by various VIPs to kill Siddharth when one of them gets close to Siddharth, Dhruva attacks him and notices that Siddharth did not wore the vest and is fatally shot by Preethi. Before dying, he tells Dhruva that he hid all the evidence in an SD card in the bulletproof vest, adding that he had not done it for the nation but because Dhruva had asked for it. Siddharth's accomplices are arrested and the film ends with Dhruva and Ishika's marriage.