The Secret Weapon (Part III)

Here’s The Secret Weapon (Part III), for today. I wrote this story for a course; I was doing in the 1990s.

The Secret Weapon (Part III)

Inspector Kartik found that the slippers he had found at the murder site did not belong to the victim. It belonged to an educated unemployed called Dattar, who had left for his village the previous day. The gupti had the victim’s blood AB positive on it.

The victim, Alex D’Cruz was a 26-year-old school dropout, who was initially working for some time as a dye-maker. For the last one or 2 years, he had been an epileptic. Always smiling, he was a well-behaved unmarried man. He was expected to go to Saudi Arabia as a driver, within 8-10 days. Alex and Dattar were very good friends before but had drifted apart.

The previous day, Alex he had had dinner at midnight with the whole family and went to sleep in a separate room, as usual alone. Nobody could tell what had happened at night. The post-mortem report said that Alex had died of hemorrhage and shock due to multiple incised wounds over his head and body. There had been total 22 strikes on the poor man.

To be continued…