Love and Hate

Chapter 2

Samaira was sitting in the class, attending a lecture. But she was lost in her thoughts.

'What did I do to suffer like this? I never wanted to hurt anyone but... why did it happen to me?'

'Samaira, please pay attention here,' The professor said, looking at her.

Samaira snapped out of her thoughts.

'Ye... yes sir,' she said.

The professor continued the lecture.

The follower was again outside the main gate on his motorcycle. Many stray boys were also on their bikes near him. The security guard was in the toilet, so no one was there to scold them.

Suddenly, some local goons entered the gate. Some people tried to stop them but they did not listen and entered the campus.

'Where is Sudarshan? Where is he?' One of them said in angry voice, moving his head around.

Many professors and students came out of the classrooms. The security guard also came running out of the toilet.

'How dare you enter college premises without permission?' A professor said.

'Are you Sudarshan?' The local goon said.

'Yes, I am. What will you do?'

The goon looked at his fellow men. They suddenly took out some blunt weapons like hockey sticks, baseball bats and cricket bats. They started beating the professor. Nobody was coming to help him. All the people present there were afraid of them.

'You asshole, how dare you scold Aaliyah?' The goon said, and kicked the professor on his a*s.

The man was still outside the gate witnessing the entire scene. After sometime, the goons stopped hitting the professor.

'Listen, you old fart. If I come to hear anything like this again, then you will face even worse consequences,' The goon said and left with his fellow goons.

Other professors came running and picked the beaten professor up. He was moaning in pain. They all took him inside.

'What are you all doing here? Go back to your classrooms,' A professor said to the students who were outside their classes.

All the students went back to their classes. The shady man took his cellphone out and called someone.

'Target is in Women's college right now,' He said in the phone in a low voice.

He then nodded after hearing the response from the other side and cut the call. Suddenly, he heard the sound of police siren.

Someone called the police when the goons attacked the professor. The man parked his motorcycle near the gate and started observing the scene.

Inspector Ishwar Singh came out of the police jeep with four constables. Many people were now gathered around the gate and were whispering to each other. The man was standing at a corner near the gate.

'Are you all here in a party?' The inspector said to the people gathered there.

Most of them left after hearing this. But the man was still standing there. The inspector looked at him. He was about to get mad at him but he stopped himself as if he already knew the man. He then went inside leaving a constable outside the gate.

'Sir here, please come inside,' A staff escorted the inspector inside.

Inspector Ishwar Singh was a 45 year old man with a moustache, stuck out belly and brown skin. He was nearly 5 feet 9 inches tall. He was wearing the khaki uniform.

'What happened here?' Inspector asked.

'Some goons attacked our professor. They were really ruthless,' The staff said.

The staff was a young man with yellow skin and brown eyes. He had black short hair and was 5 feet 6 inches tall. He was wearing a blue full-sleeved shirt tucked in his black pants. His ID card was hanging on his neck. 'Arjun Yadav' was the name written on it.

'Who were they?'

'Nazish Khan, the local g**g leader.'

Inspector looked at the staff with a frown.

'Hm, and why did he attack the professor?'

'Professor Sudarshan scolded his girlfriend Aaliyah who studies here.'

'That damn Nazish...' Inspector whispered to himself.

'Did you say something, sir?'

'No. Where is the professor? And... call that girl also.'

'Okay, sir. Do you need anything else? Like Tea, Coffee...'

'Nothing.'

'Okay. Please follow me, sir.'

The inspector followed him inside the building.

In the guest room, two staffs were taking care of Professor Sudarshan. He was hurt badly. They were talking to each other.

'Look how those goons have treated you, you are badly hurt,' A staff said while sitting on a chair beside Sudarshan.

'We should take him to the hospital,' Another staff said.

'I have called the ambulance. And Arjun called the police also.'

'Police won't do anything. That Nazish Khan works for the MLA Vibhishana Tyagi.'

'You are right. Law cannot harm these criminals, especially "our" law.'

'Police and law will do their work, you don't have to teach us,' Inspector said while entering the guest room with the staff Arjun and three constables.

The two staffs got panicked and stood up.

'Inspector sir, when did you...' One staff was trying to say something but Inspector interrupted him.

'This college sure has a long list of criminal activities. Back to back cases. When was I last here?' Inspector said.

'Sir, a week ago,' Arjun said.

'Yeah, The Bashir Khan case. Nazish Khan and Aaliyah were also in the suspect lists for sometime. And what was that girl's name?'

Inspector tried to put some pressure on his brain, so that he could remember the name.

'Sir, her name was Samaira,' Arjun said.

'Yes, yes, Samaira. She was also a suspect, before the case was concluded as an accident.'

'Sir, please do something about Nazish Khan,' The staff said who was sitting beside the professor.

Inspector glared at him from the corner of his eyes.

'I'll do it. You don't have to teach me.'

He walked near the professor. He saw that the professor was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed. He was frowning and his mouth was open. He was even bleeding from his nose. It was clearly indicating that he was in a lot of pain.

The shady man was still standing outside the main gate. He took out his cell phone and called someone.

'I'll proceed my mission tonight,' He said on the phone.

He then cut the phone and left on his motorcycle.