Chapter 7

[MEMBERSONLY]

Part 2 

IG ; Please state your name fot the record

ACP; S. Srikant Pradyuman

IG ; Did you take Varun , the trainee officer  directly under your wing , to mentor him? 

ACP ; No sir , I made sure Daya and Abhijeet were mentoring him

IG; Can you explain your reasoning behind that?

ACP ; I was delegating my work ,  Abhijeet and Daya were both in the running for the next ACP and I wanted to see how well they mentored the trainee

IG ; Both Abhijeet and Daya were in the running? I thought that you earmarked Abhijeet for the big promotion after you've retired , what made you change your mind? Did you have any personal vendetta against Abhijeet?

ACP ; I don't have a vendetta against Abhijeet , it was just that for the past decade or so Daya started to perform exceptionally , more than usual If I may add so I had them both for running , although I haven't informed them yet , because circumstances change and there may well be a different ACP altogether , so I didn't want them to have high hopes and competition causes friction in this line of work so I didn't pit them against each other as well

IG ; Alright , when did you realise Varun was unstable?.

ACP ; I wouldn't call it unstable , he cracked under the pressure , it can happen to the best of us , given the circumstances under which he cracked , it wouldn't have been a suprise if I had done the same thing as him - although I shouldn't admit this on the record- our patience was wearing thin about the new management and we-

IG ; Thank you ACP Pradyuman , you may leave

ACP ; I thought we were being honest in the inquiry session, are you ashamed that you followed the orders of a corrupt-

IG; You're pushing your luck , please leave

End of part 2

[NOCOPY]