When Radha went back to college… (Part II)

I penned this story, When Radha went back to college… (Part II), as a Guru Dakshina to all my teachers and professors, some years ago.

When Radha went back to college… (Part II)

When they reached Shalini’s home in Noida and Radha was comfortable, Shalini told her the problem. “My husband has been arrested for something he has not done.”

“What? I mean, what happened?”

“I had to leave the job I had in your college because my husband got a job here. He is an investigative journalist like you, but much senior to you in the field. I found that something fishy was happening in the college, where I am teaching now. I told him and he started investigating. Then, there was a murder in the college, my husband was trapped there and was caught when the police came.”

“Why don’t you start from the beginning?”

“This institute, S K Gupta College of Communications, had just been established when I joined them as a Professor of Journalism in India. There is a shop opposite the campus. The students, who do not have a cell phone, use the private mobile available in the shop for personal calls. Now, I’ve seen the shopkeeper taking undue advantage of this fact. You can understand the implications, Radha?”

“Yes, Ma’am, I do. But the students are big enough to understand these things, if they are doing the Bachelor’s degree.”

“That’s what I am shocked about. And I also suspect some drug-peddling by some outsiders from that shop to defame the institute. Since it is outside the premises, the principal says that nothing can be done about it. Then, my husband started investigating the case and the next thing that I was told was that he had been arrested for murder. I know he wouldn’t even hurt a fly.”

To be continued…