Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai  today starts with Naira(Shivangi Joshi) noticing Kartik(Mohsin Khan) angrily running away and she follows as Swarna notices. Swarna hopes and porays there is no new issues in their lives. Naira follows Kartik all the way as Kartik keeps running towards something. She misses Kartik after a while and she thinks that she really hopes Kartik is in no trouble. She sees a van driving away and screams out to Kartik. Naira knows somebody with a jeep nearby and takes the jeep to drive after the van. The family wonders why Naira walked away from the pooja and Swarna thinks she must have seen Kartik. Naitik lies to Bhabhima that everything is fine here so no one worries.

Naira drives on as we see a Kartik who has been bound and is being taken away by the goons who have the kids with them. Kartik assures the crying kids that he would save them all. The goon Biju asks Kartik to stay out of this matter orelse he himself will have to suffer. Naira knows something is not right as she follows. The Maharaj asks Suhasini to call the kids but Sihasini tells him that it is always like this in the lives of Kartik and Naira and nothing comes to them easy. Maharaj hopes that whatever happens his work should be done orelse he will kill both Kartik and Naira.

Kartik tells the goons that he already had his doubts last night but he never imagined it would be this bad. He then hits the goons and jumps out of the van as he beats up the goons. Naira as she is driving to the place is in a fix as her jeep breaks down. Naira hopes her jeep starts now. Kartik manages to get the kids out of the jeep and asks Pungi to take the kids to safety. But as Kartik is about to turn to the goons he gets hit on head. Naira finds the kids wandering on the road and stops them.

The kids update her about what happened and Naira now knows that Kartik would have seen the kids been taken away and would have ran away from the pooja. She asks the kids where Pungi is and the kids tell her that Pungi was in the jeep itself. Naira assures the kids that she and Kartik will assure Pungi’s safety while she asks them to find her father and Kartik father at the ghat and inform them. Naira finds the vacant van and runs in search of Kartik.

The maharaj asks Suhasini where Kaira is and that he cannot complete the pooja without them. Suddenly he notices the kids running towards them and he recognises them as the same ones whose photos he saw. The kids reach Manish and Naitik while they update them about the situation. The family takes steps and gets the police involved as Maharaj gets warned. Naira reaches a ice covered hill and starts searching for Kartik.

The maharaj calls up Biju and scolds him for being careless. Biju assures him that he has already buried Kartik in the ice on the hill and that he will now sell of rest of the kids. He says that Naira will never find Kartik until it is too late. Naira searches around on the hill as she falls and rolls down. Manish asks the police if there is something like child trafficking in all of this and the police assure to get to the bottom of this. Naira notices Kartik buried in the ice and is shocked. The maharaj reveals himself to the family as he asks Suhasini to do something for him orelse threatens to kill Kaira.

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