When Radha went back to college… (Part X)

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

When Radha went back to college… (Part X)

Later, when she was alone, Radha went to the store room and opened it with a key, the CEO had given her. She only wanted to know the location of the store room from Shekhar.

The store room was filled with many desks and benches with a couple of broken tables. Using the small torch that Radha always carried, she looked at every nook and corner. In the middle of the room was a cleared area where the outline of the body that was found in the room, looked creepy. Just a little beyond, on the inner side of the bench on the floor was something very small and shining. Radha squatted near it and picked up what looked like a sim card of a mobile. The shine was from the metal piece on the reverse side of the card.

“This is a sim card,” Radha said to herself. She had decided that she would go to the hostel and then check it out.

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When she reached the hostel, it was past lunch time. She had already had some sandwiches from the college canteen. The moment she reached her room, she closed the door and sat comfortably on her bed. She removed the sim card in her cell and put the one she had found in the store room in its place. There was a frequently called number in the call register of the new sim card.

The person using the sim card had even called her a couple of times, as well!

She used the True Caller app to find out who owned the other frequently called numbers. They were Shekhar’s friends! She wrote down the numbers recently called from Shekhar’s number and the timings of the call to her number.

She met Shalini and took her help in finding the owner of the sim card, by calling her number from the number currently in her phone. Then, she changed the sim to her own and double-checked the number and her suspicion bore fruit. Without doubt, it was Shekhar’s number.

To be continued…