M- A Million Dollar Question

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The dairy is still a piece of hard evidence.  It contains important circumstantial evidence that can cause doubts in the right-minded legal personalities.  Say a defence attorney succeeds in causing doubts in the judge presiding over the case--he could earn the accused a lesser punishment or even prove him innocent.  I got the inside the information that the ADGP has made the case tight to earn him the death penalty.”

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“Now, the million-dollar question is who dropped that dairy with your security man in your office building?” asked Kovoor.  “The mystery is adding layers, leaving no clue to unfold them.”

Madhavan had spent sleepless nights-- his investigative mind hoovering over that question—who is that a friend or a foe?

“There is someone among the murderers who wish the truth gets found and the culprits brought to the books.”

“What is your rationale behind that?” 

“Somewhere in the group lost trust in others and decided to take revenge on them.  It happens, someone planning to turn a state witness.”

“A good possibility, but the timing gives me other concerns too.   It happened when the case got transferred to the crime branch.  The crime branch ADGP got the charge of the investigation.  It got announced across all the visual, print, and social media.   I lost the case, so what use they found in dropping it in front of my office?”

“You have a valid point there, Arjun,”  Kovoor pushed his seat backwards and stood up, paced along the room—his mannerism while tackling complicated questions.  “Someone who does not know the difference between the police and the crime branch investigation.  Isn’t it a possibility?”

“It’s.”

“This diary of the victim—have you done any search for it in the victim’s premises during the investigation?” Kovoor took a break from his pacing, returned to his seat,

“We did.  We had expected something of that sort, the victim being a learned and literate person.  We found nothing.  We found a bookshelf and noticed dust outlines on the shelf.  It looked like books or something like that removed from it.  We have indicated that in the case diary.”

“So, the offenders removed them, fearing there would be some incriminating evidence against them in the absence of which dumped them in front of your office.”

“There are a thousand possibilities-- someone found it lying somewhere, dropped it in front of the police station hoping for some use.  Or someone did it to make fun of the police.”

“I doubt the last part.”

“Your reasoning?”

The dairy is still a piece of hard evidence.  It contains important circumstantial evidence that can cause doubts in the right-minded legal personalities.  Say a defence attorney succeeds in causing doubts in the judge presiding over the case--he could earn the accused a lesser punishment or even prove him innocent.  I got the inside the information that the ADGP has made the case tight to earn him the death penalty.”

If an innocent man gets saved from the jaws of death, that is a reward, Anand thought.   



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