The non-stop ringing of the phone woke Sanskar Maheswari from his sleep. He got up cursing the one calling at this ungodly hours. "Muhkerji why are you calling? What have happened that cant wait till morning." The news the man at other end said woke him from his sleep." Oh is it. Ok i will reach there in 15minutes and my coffe better be ready."
By the time he reached there the place was filled with media.Police had to clear path for him to reach inside the building. He was bombared with questions.
" Sir who do you suspect is behind this ?"
"Sir have you got any lead as to what was the motive behind this?"
He pushed through the crowd without giving any defenite answer.
" Ahh the man i was looking for Mukherji where is my coffe? And where are the men supposed to be working on this scene?"
He walked towards the room. He reached the door and looked up at the board. It read Shekar Gadodia Maneging Director. He pushed open the door and the smell of blood made him gag a bit . A body of what looked like a man of age somewhere around his 60's was there lying in a pool of blood. On closer look he saw puncture wound in his stomach and a cut at the neck. But no wepon or knife could be seen.
He walked around the room and saw an elevator inside the room. The room was ransacked and cabinets where thrown open. The murderor was searching for something he thought.
"Sir the forensic team is here." "Informed one of the uniformed policemen. He turned towards the voice and gave them a node to come inside. He asked mukherji to give them a brief on the victim.
" The body was found by the cleaning crew somewhere around 11 to 11.30pm. The said that when they reached the building at 9 pm the lights where on in this room and the blinds where also open. They had seen Mr Gadodia working here. They decided to do work in the floor later as he was here. When they came back to this floor after completing all others they found blinds closed and door was also closed. And once inside they found the body."
"So is the person who found the body still here?"
" Yes sir."
" Good call him up."
A man of around 25 years enters the room. He looks a bit frightened. And lingers near the door without entering the room. Sanskar gestured him to come inside.
"So what is your name?"
"Rohit "
"So Rohit how long have you worked here?" Sanskar asked him.
"For about 7 months Sir." Rohit answered him."
"So did you hear anything unusual when you came in here tonight?"
"No sir i didn't. When i came in Mr Gadodia was working and he had asked us not to disturb him when he is working. So we left cleaning this floor for last and went on to do other floors."
"So when you came back to this floor did you find anything unusual other than a dead body?"
"No Sir."
" Hmm. You can go now. Give your details to officer outside. We will contact you when needed."
Rohit hurried out of the room.
Sanskar turned to Mukherji and asked him to make sure the forensic team thoroughly checked the room for any bit if evidence that can be found.
He went out side and opened file on Shekar Gadodia. Shekar Gadodia was married to Gayathri Gadodia and had a daughter Ragini Gadodia. His mother and father was also living with them. Ragini is engaged to be married to one Laksh Sinhania who was a low level executive in the firm and have climbed up the ladders owing to him being the owner's daughter's fiance.
Well next stop has to be the Gadodia mansion Sanskar thought.
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Swara was unaware of the storm coming here way. She was getting ready for her classes. A loud crash was heard from the dinning room . She rushed to the room and saw that dida had dropped a plate. Tv was running showing news of murder of some big shot businessman.
Without paying much attention to news Swara asked "Dida what happened. You look as if you saw a ghost." Swara said smiling and picked up the plate off the floor.