Her Voice

Episode 2

    Anuj was getting irritated with all the happenings around him and he wanted to put full stop to it. He went directly to his room and thought enough is enough, now I have to file a complaint against this person. He/she is doing too much now, they have entered my house as well. It has been going on for so many months, now I think it is time to take action against them.

    Mili tried to stop him, “Sir, please stop, I think you have got an attack, there is nothing written on the paper,” but he went away ignoring her words. 

    Anuj was sitting in front of Inspector Vikram and narrating his story and told the inspector that somebody is harassing him for so many months and now they have started to send him chits, which has Hi Handsome written on it and I want you to take my complaint and take strict action against them.

    Vikram listened to his story attentively and asked him to show the chit, so that he can use it as a proof and asked if he had doubt on anybody.

    Anuj took the slip from his pocket and kept it in front of the inspector and Inspector looked at him confused.

    Anuj said, look it is written there, “Hi Handsome.”

    Vikram took the paper, turned it back and forth and looked at Anuj confused and asked, "which side it is written?"

    Anuj took the paper and pointed his finger on it and showed him. See this, here it is written, “Hi Handsome”

    Vikram became angry as he was not able to see anything on the chit. He arose from his seat and called his constable and asked him to throw Anuj out of the station saying, "he is wasting our time. He just came here without any proof and making me fool by saying something is written on this plain paper.”

    Constable came and asked Anuj politely to leave.

    Anuj looked at the Inspector and asked, “What happened Inspector? Why don’t you want to lodge a complaint, I am showing you proof, then what is the problem?”

    “Mister, whoever you are, this is a police station and not a mental asylum. You need a psychiatrist, not the FIR. Go and get your treatment done first,” Inspector said, showing his irritation.

    Anuj stood up and looked at the constable and then turned to the Inspector and said stubbornly, “I don’t have any mental illness and I am not going out of this station, unless and until you lodge the complaint against them.”

    Inspector stood up from his place and said, “do whatever you want to do, but don’t try to bother me as I have a lot of work to take care of” and went out of the station.

    Anuj went and sat on the bench and started looking at the door, waiting for the Inspector to return. He thought he might be tense, so not able to understand his point and waited for him for a long time, but he didn’t return.

    Anuj started to search for his phone to call Mili to inform her that he will become late, but then he remembered, he forgot his phone in the car. He looked at the constable standing there and went near him and requested his phone to make a call and he looked at Anuj from top to bottom and gave his phone and said, “don’t talk in unknown language and don't go far away from me, just talk in front of me.”

    Anuj took his pocket diary and searched for Mili’s number and dialled her number and informed Mili that he is in police station and they are not taking his complaint, so he will become late, not to wait for him and can leave home early if she wants. She was about to say something, but he cut the call.

    Anuj then thought for some time and asked the constable, “can I make one more call?"

    Constable nodded as okay, he dialled Naina’s number and told her everything in one go, but when he stopped there was no sound from the phone and he checked the phone and it was dead. He tried to restart it, but it didn’t react, so he looked at the constable and he smiled at him and said, "Hi Handsome, go home and rest, no one can help you" and left from there.

    Anuj looked at the direction he went thinking he may return and he can talk to him, but he also didn’t return. Not understanding why they are not understanding him when he has a solid proof, he sat there sadly looking for them to return.

    After a long time, Inspector came back and looked at Anuj and went inside and sat on his seat. He started doing his work. Anuj tried to talk to him, but he said, first you get the proof, then only I will listen to you.

    Anuj waited for him to listen to him, when suddenly Naina came there and looked at Anuj and asked, “Anuj what is this? Why are you behaving like this? You know this is the reason why I am divorcing you, but you are not even stopping your nonsense behaviour.”

    “What are you talking about Naina? I called you and informed you everything, but you also didn’t understand my point. I have a solid proof Naina,” he said looking at her in disbelief.

    “What did you inform me? When did you call me? I came here because Mili called me and informed me that you got an attack and you are behaving weirdly,” so I came here hurriedly.

    Naina, why are you lying in front of the Inspector, I called you and I have proof of that, as I called with the constable’s number who stood here in front of me some time ago.

    Inspector looked at him and asked, “which constable are you talking about?”

    Sir, the young guy with a small mustache, after you left, he was standing here only looking at me.

    Inspector thought for some time and said, “we don’t have any young constable with a small mustache here.”

    Sir, he stood here for a long time and I asked him for his phone and he gave me his phone and told me that I should not talk in an unknown language.

    Inspector looked at him and smirked and said, “Now, I will prove to you that you need psychiatric treatment, rather than lodging a complaint.”

    He called the constable and asked him to bring the CCTV footage of the morning, after he left from the station.

    They waited for the CCTV footage and the other constable arranged the laptop.

    Constable brought the CD and inserted it in the laptop and they all started watching it, but there was no constable present there.

    Vikram was about to turn off the laptop, when Anuj stopped him from doing so and pointed his finger on the screen showing them the constable standing there.

    All were shocked to see the constable, he was their old constable only, who used to have a medium sized mustache, but today he trimmed them and made them small.

    Vikram ordered other constables to search for him and he tried to contact him on his number.

    After some time, one constable came hurriedly towards Vikram and said, Sir, that constable is dead. His body is at the backside of the station.

    Vikram, Anuj and Naina, ran towards that direction and found the body lying on the ground. Vikram took the constable’s phone from his pocket and was about to on the phone when Anuj said, “Sir, I think there is no charge in the phone as it went off when I was calling.”

    Vikram looked at him and restarted the phone and checked it and it had a full charge. He turned the phone towards Anuj and showed him that the charging is full. He then started to try constables fingers on the phone and he became successful in opening the phone. He checked call history and looked at Naina and asked,  “Madam, what is your number?” 

    Naina looked at him confused and then said, “my number is xxx.”    

    Vikram found out that the last call was made to Naina only and he showed it to Naina. Naina looked at him shocked and took out her phone and checked her call history and found out that she had a call received by an unknown number some time ago.

    Vikram, Anuj and Naina came into the station, Vikram took his seat and looked at Anuj and said, “I don’t think I can help you now. We have a lot of work to complete. We have to do an investigation on the sudden death of the constable and as it is month ending we have to make reports of this month also. Can you come after some days, we will look into it.”

    Anuj nodded as okay and asked, “Sir, can I have your phone number please.”

    Yeah sure, you note it down, my name is Inspector Vikram and my number is “XXX” 

    Anuj wrote the number and thanked Vikram that he showed interest in supporting him and left from there.

    After Anuj left, the constable looked at Vikram confused and asked, “How will we help him sir?”

    Who is going to help him? I just thought of getting rid of him for now by giving him a fake number, said Vikram smiling at his victory.