LIFE LESS

by krishna raghunathan
12th February 2017

"I AM GOING" SAID MR. HAWKS, INSPECTOR OF POLICE. HE IS GOING OUT OF GHIS POLICE STATION AFTER FINISHING HIS WORKS AT 7:00 PM. CHENNAI, A NORMAL INDIAN CITY,WHICH  LIES IN THE SOUTH OF INDIA, IS THE HOME TOWN OF THIS SINCERE POLICE MAN. HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO MUMBAI THAT NIGHT BY TRAIN.HE WAS FILLED WITH JOY. EVERYDAY, HE GOES TO HIS HOUSE BY THE BUSY ROADS WHICH HE HATE. BUT TODAY, HE IS FLYING TO HIS HOUSE IN HIS MOTORCYCLE WITH JOY. THE BUSY ROADS OF CHENNAI, WITH SUFFIECIENT NUMBER OF PEOPLE WAITING IN THEIR VEHICLES TO CROSS THE ROAD. ANYHOW, AFTER A LOT OF STRUGGLE, HAWKS CAME TO HOME IN HIS BEAUTIFUL CB SHINE BIKE. "HEY, I'M IN. GIVE ME SOME TGHING TO EAT." SAID HAWKS, TO MRS. HAWKS, WHO WAS STANDING IN THE KITCHEN AND EAGERLY WAITING FOR HIM. "I'M ON THE WAY. WHAY ARE YOU SO EARLY TODAY?"

"BECAUSE, WE ARE GOING TO GATEWAY OF INDIA TODAY. TO MUMBAI." SAID MR. HAWKS, REMOVING HIS BOOTS. "AS IF I DON'T KNOW THAT. I WANT TO KNOW HOW DID YOU COME THIS EARLY TODAY?" ASKED MRS. HAWKS. "WORKS WERE LESS. LEAVE IT. DID YOU PACK EVERYTHING NEEDED?" ASKED MR. HAWKS. "YES. EVERYTHING ARE READY. ONLY YOU ARE NOT." SAID MRS. HAWKS.

"WAHT TO DO. IT'S THE LIFE OF A POLICE MAN." SAOID MR. HAWKS, AND WENT TO IS ROOM. LET'S GO TO THE HEART OF THIS STORY.

 "COME FAST." SAID MR. HAWKS, TO HIS WIFE. FASTLY GETTING INSIDE THE RAILWAY STATION. HIS WIFE WAS FOLLOWING HIM. THEY ARE NEWLY MARRIED. THEY DON'T HAVE A CHILD.

"GOSHHHH!" SHOUTED, A MALE VOICE. IT WAS VERY TIRED, PITIFUL. THE COUPLE RAN TO THE SPOT FROM WHARE THE SOUND CAME. THERE LAID, A LIFELESS ORGANISM. IT'S A HUMAN. "QUITE STRANGE. GOD KNOWS IT'S A MURDER OR SUICIDE." SAID MR. HAWKS WITH PITY. THE BODY WAS SHADDING BLOOD LIKE STREAM INTO THE RAILWAY TRACK. THE VISITORS OF THE DEAD STRONGLY BELIEVED THAT IT WAS A SUICIDE. HOW COULD IT HAPPEN? IN A CROWDED PUBLIC PLACE LIKE RAILWAY STATION.

A STRANGE SOUNG WAS HEARED. THE HEART BET FASTER AND LOUDLY INSIDE THE LIVES PRESENT IN THE CROWD. "MAY BE THE PHONE OF THE VICTIM IS RINGING." MR. HAWKS SAID. "IT'S YOUR PHONE." SAID HIS WIFE.

"OH, SORRY!" MR. HAWKS TOOK UP HIS PHONE AND ATTENDED THE CALL. "AC SPEAKING " SAID THE DIALLER. "OH, SIR. WHAT'S THE MATTER." SAID MR. HAWKS. IT WAS HIS HIGHER OFFICER.

"DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MURDER?" ASKED THE AC. HIS NAME IS JACKER. "NO, SIR. BUT I'M SEEING IT." WAS THE REPLY. "OKAY! ARE YOU THERE AT THE RAILWAY STATION? I'M GOING TO COIMBATORE FOR FAMILY FUNCTION. YOU SOULD TAKE UP THE CASE AND SOLVE IT." SAID JACKER. HAWKS HATED HIS LIFE ST THAT MOMENT. HE SADLY CUT THE CALL AND KEPT THRE PHONE IN HIS POCKET. "OH! I HAVE TO SOLVE THE CASE." SAID MR. HAWKS TO HIS WIFE, AND RETURNED TO HIS HOME. 

THE NEXT MORNING, HE WENT TO CANCEL HIS TICKET AT THE SAME RAILWAY STATION. HE FOUND A WONDER AT THAT STATION. IT'S CCTV CAMERA. A CAMERA HUNG IN THE STATION STAREIGHT TO THE SPOT OF THE MURDER. HE IMMEDIATELY WENT INSIDE THE STATION AND ASKED TO SEE THE FOOTAGE AT THE PERIOD OF MURDER. HE WAS ALLOWED. HE SAW THAT FOOTAGE. HE SAW THE BOY FALLING ON THE GROUNG LIFELESS. HE WAS STRUCK BY A ROD IN HIS HEAD. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS UNABLE TO SEE THE FACE OF THE MURDERER. BUT, HE WAS ABLE TO SEE HIS SHOE. IT WAS POLICE SHOE. ONE COULD NOTICE POLICE PANT, POLICE BELT, BUT NOT THE FACE. NOW, HAWKS WAS CLEAR THAT IT'S A MURDER AND DID BY A POLICE. HE ALSO SAW A SCENE WHICH CAUGHT HOLD OF HIS MIND. A TICKET. A RILWAY TICKET WAS FLYING OUT FROM  THE POCKET OF THE MURDERER. WITH THIS, MR. HAWKS WAS SATISFIED. HE WENT INSIDE AND GOT HIS TICKET CANCELLED. HE WAS ONLY GIVEN WITH 50% OF THE MONEY, BUT HIS DIDN'T UPSET HIM.

HE IMMEDIATELY, HE PHONED JACKER. HE SAID TO HIM," I AM PROVIDED WITH AN EVIDENCE FOR THIS CASE. I FOUND THAT THE CULPRIT WAS A PASSENGER AND A POLICE MAN." THIS MADE JACKER TO BE GLAD. HE GOT SATISFIED AND KEPT HIS PHONE.

HE FOUND THAT IT WAS EASY TO FIND THE CULPRIT. HAWKS WENT INSIDE THE STATION AND ASKED THE DETAILS AND HE WAS NOT GIVEN. HAWKS THREATENED THE STATION MASTER, "I'M HAVING EVERY RIGHTS TO FILE A CASE ON YOU FOR  NOT COOPERATING WITH THE POLICE." SCARING AT HIM, THE STATION MASTER PROVIDED HIM THE REQUIRED DETAILS. HE SAW THE LIST OF THE BOOKEDTICKETS FOR YESTERDAY'S TRAINS. HE FOUND THE REQIURED DETAILS AND RETURNED HOME. HE WAS GIFTED WITH THE NAME OF THE PASSENGERS. HE FOUND A FAMILIAR NAME. WHEN HE TALKED TO THE STATION MASTERS ABOUT THE BOOKINGS, HE WAS SAID" A POLICEMAN CAME TO BOOK A TICKET FOR DELHI. LET'S SEE THE PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN RAJDHANI EXPRESS. " THEY SAW IT AND FOUND NAMES OF THE PASSENGERS. THEY FOUND A NAME OF A POLICE MAN AND STOPPED  WITH IT. NEXT DAY, HE WENT TO THE POLICE STATION AND TALKED ABOUT IT TO HIS FELLOW POLICEMEN. HE INQUIRED EACH AND EVERY POLICE MAN ANA ASKED WHETHER THEY HAD SOME POLICE FRIENDS WITH NAME HARISH. THIS WAS THE NAME OF THE POLICE PASSENGER, AND HE WAS THE CULPRIT ACCORDING TO HAWKS. HE ALSO FOUND SOME SIMILAR NAMES OF THE FELLOW POLICEMEN FRIEND'S TO BE HARISH. HE GOT THREE FRIEND'S NAME AS HARISH. HE ALSO GOT THE ADRESSES OF THE PEOPLE. HAWKS WENT TO THE FIRST MAN'S HOUSE AND WAITED AT THE STREET END, HAVING AN EYE ON THE HOUSE. THERE, A YOUNG MAN, GOT OUT OF THE HOUSE, WORRIED. HE PHONED TO SOMEONE,"COME TO THE PARK. I'LL BE THERE IN FIVE MINUTES. IT'LL DO GOOD FOR BOTH OF US." HE FOLLOWED THE MAN. HE REACHED THE PARK WITH THE FIRST HARISH. HARISH WENT INSIDE THE PARK AND SAT DOWN ON THE BENCH. HAWKS SAT IN THE NEXT BENCH AS IF HE HAS NO RELATION WITH HARISH. HARISH WAS SOON ACCOMPANIED BY A COLLEGE STUDENT, WHO WAS COMING IN A HAPPY MOOD. HE SAT WITH HARISH, "ARE YOU FREE NOW. I AM GOING TO PLAY BADMINTON HJERE WITH MY FRIENDS. " NO WAS THE REPLY FROM HJARISH. THIS MADE HAWKS TO DOUBT ON HJARISH. " I HAVE AN IMPORTANT WORK. YESTERDAY NIGHT, THERE WAS A MURDER IN THE STATION. WHEN WE WERE OUT FOR A RECEPTION. SO, I HAVE TO HELP MR. HAWKS ON THIS CASE." THIS SHOOKED HAWKS. HE IS CONFIRM THAT THIS HARISH IS INNOCENT. HAWKS WENT OT THE HOUSE OF THE SECOND HARISH. IT WAS LOCKED. TWO PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE WERE TALKING," HARISH DID NOT GIVE ME THE MONEY BACK. BUT INSTAED, HE WENT TO DUBAI WITH HIS FAMILY LAST WEEK." "HORRIBLE." SAID THE OTHER. HAWKS WAS CONFIRMED THAT THE THIRD HARISH IS THE REAL CULPRIT. HE STARIGHTLY WENT TO THE THIRD HARISH'S HOUSE. HE SAW A POLICE MAN COMING OUT OF HIS HOUSE AND GETTING INTO HIS JEEP. HAWKS FOLLOWED THE JEEP WITH HIS SHINE.

HARISH ENTERED THE POLICE STATION, WELCOMED BY HIS FELLOW POLICEMAN. "HE LOOKS SINCERE. HE MAY NOT BE THE CULPRIT." THOUGHT HAWKS. BUT A STRANGE SIGHT SHOOK HM DOWN. HARISH SAID HIS FELLOW POLICEMEN THAT HE IS GOING TO RESTROOM. BUT, HE WAS IN THE OTHER WAY. HE WENT OUT OF THE POLICE STATION AND FOUND HIMSELF TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO WAS STANDING NEAR TO HIM. "YESTERDAY, IT WAS A BAD DAY. I AM AFRAID. I SHOULDN'T HAVE WENT TO THE RAILWAY STATION YESTERDAY. I SAW A HORRIBLE SIGHT. " HE STOPPED AND SAW AROUND HIM AND WHEN HE GOT SATISFIED THAT NOONE WAS HEARING HIM, HE WENT ON. "A BOY WAS WALKING IN THE RAILWAY TRACK WITH A ROD. I SAW HIM AND THOUGHT THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SUICIDE. I FOLLOWED HIM. HE WENT NEAR A SMALL BOY AND LIFTED HIM. THE SMALL BOY SEEMED TO BE HIS BROTHER. BUT, THIS WAS NOT TRUE. HE TOOK THE POOR TINY BOY OUTSIDE THE RAILWAY TRACK. HE KEPT THE SMALL BOY DOWN AND TOOK A KNIFE. HE CUT THE BOY'S SHIRT, AND GAVE HIM A POOR LOOK. HE WENT ON TO PIERCE HIS HAND. I WENT NEAR HIM AND PUSHED HIM. I GOT A ROD AND STRUCK HIM BY THE HEAD. HE FELL LIFELESS."

HAWKS WAS CONFIRMED THAT HARISH WAS GOOD. HE WENT NEAR HARISH AND SAID HIM HE WANT TO ARREST HIM. HE SAID,"SURE, BUT YOU FIRST TAKE ME TO COMMISIONER OFFICE. I WANT JUSTICE."

THEY WENT TO THE COMMISIONER OFFICE AND EXPLAINED THE SITUATION TO HIM. HE SAID,"IT'S NOT A CRIME. HARISH CONVERTED A HEARTLESS CREATURE FROM HEARTLESS TO LIFELESS." "I WANT TO GIVE HIM A PROMOTION. BUT ANYWAY, YOU HAVE TO BE PUNISHED FOR THIS. TAKE HIM TO JAIL, HAWKS. AFTER YOU COME OUT OF THE JAIL, YOU WILL BE GETTING PROMOTION." SAID COMMISIONER. "AND FOR ME?" ASKED HAWKS. NO WAS THE REPLY. THEY LAUGHRD TOGETHER AND WENT TO THE JAIL.

 

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