The Actual Story Begins

        

 The grocer and his wife are from Nagaon and they have been residing here for some ten years.

The BCIA is always busy. Yesterday I got a call from Axis Bank, Panbazar stating that there was something exigent to share at the same time the book shop owner Mr. Hazarika is lodging a complaint against the robbery at his place. What the hell is the police doing? Tony and doctor were sent to the book shop owner’s company for investigation when another crucial piece of information came to me. “Mr. Hrishikesh I am calling from SBI Six Mile Saraswati Market, we have got an information that robbers are scheduling to rob this area tonight. We have well-versed the police but to ensure apposite security and to avert this robbery we want you and your bureaucrats to make an appropriate plan, our bank administrators are ready to give you the obligatory niceties” “Sir, please pay a visit to BCIA and we shall talk over it there.” I replied.   

 

Mr. Pratap as you would remember paid us a regular visit although his case was not that significant at that point of time. He used to wear the same dress every day and smoke at our bureau. But his stories were worth listening especially when one was over worked or exhausted out.

The master mind behind grocer shop robbery was also behind the robbery of the book shop owner’s. His face was detected in the nearby market square and now was under public’s boots. The police brought him to us when Tony started the enquiry. “What’s your name and address?” “JK Bora brother of eminent merchant Robert!” “How many outlets does Robert has in Fancy Bazar?” Tony grilled. “Three if I am not wrong.” “No you are certainly wrong! It’s four. This proves that you are not his associate, tell me where do you live?” “In the footpath” “How many men are under you?”

“Only two, Emon and Raju, 20 and 24 respectively” “And who is that girl beside you supporting you in that robbery?” “She is my fiancée, and I rob only to please her” “That was an open lie Mr, officer please take him away” Tony cried. It will be fascinating to cram what Tony learned from the criminal.

Tony said that the criminal was a big fabricator but he managed to understand what was intended to say. According to Tony the criminal has no kin will Robert nor does he lives in the footpath because he attires insist that. He must be a graduate as his ID aver. And that two with him are employees of a factory and that girl cannot be his fiancée as she was there only to pay the grocer a visit when she saw the robbery was under progress she did not interfere as this could lead to her own loss rather she buoyed the criminals and made her way back. “But Tony how did you know that?” “See, the girl was not in her black dress moreover she was not interested in the robbery so what she  did was only for her good, she isn’t to be blamed, rather she is a smart girl.” “Raju and Emon are workshop workers because there legs and hands were cladded with cement.”

A few days later in my own residence at Kharghuli, a lady came and broke her heart telling that her husband and her sons were killed by two factory workers at Jorabat. Hard to believe but I still investigated the site of crime with doctor but found no evidence of it. The case remained untouched for weeks when later it was revealed that it was only a car accident!

Do you remember my article in The Assam Tribune? It was not published and so I was quite down. Nevertheless Tony was investigating the site of the Bank Robbery at Sixmile. This was a serious affair as even after such a robust security the Robbery was fruitful and now the Bank administrators and the government were quite distraught with the BCIA. They were thinking of disbanding it when Tony gave a mind-blowing indication. He had found out the impressions of the robbers in the tea cups at the nearby tea stool. They were four he said. They definitely must have had got the aid of some bank officials so now it was the duty of the police to find out and report who he/she was. In the meantime my network of spies educated me that the next aim was the SBI Branch at AT Road Bijoy Nagar. So the region near the bank was now under our strict command. Doctor and cook would regularly take a drive of AT Road in their AS01DK0007 and one day they noticed something infrequent. A gang of four to five people were having tea with wine, the cook also wanted to join them and the doctor left him with them and went away silently. That night we were stirring at the BCIA waiting for the cook when he arrived drunk. We allowed him to rest for an hour and then Tony started the enquiry, “How many?” “Four men and one woman, all around thirties.” “Did they ask your whereabouts”

“Of course not, they were busy discussing something which I heard over” “What did you hear?” “They are planning to fool the CBI this time by undergoing a secret operation near Zoo Road!” “What sort of operation?” “I don’t know exactly” “Do you know their names and faces?” “One was Emon and one was named Raj…” “Raju if I am not wrong” Tony interfered. “I’m afraid you know them” alleged the cook. To which Tony asked him to continue.

After having a rudimentary idea of what was actually going on Tony and I decided to investigate the Grocer’s shop. At the same time the doctor and the cook sustained their old business. Gaurav Sarma set up an enquiry bench and continued detailed investigation of the Sixmile bank branch. In the grocer’s I saw some unusual items which alarmed me. Tony told the ventilators in the East are of no practical usage, also the window out there. He took out his magnifying glass to read every trivial and big detail while I brushed through the drawers. After futile search for an hour I got a gun, A Gun! At the Grocer’s! Grocer and his wife were detained and brought to the CBI Office for enquiry. Tony instituted a subway under the cash counter and some bits of powdery substance below the grocer’s chair. We shadowed the tunnel but very soon discovered that it was partaking a dead lock out there. Interestingly the tunnel was one through which drugs must have been exported or imported. We came to this conclusion after forensic test of the powdery sample. The Grocer and his family was charged for indulging in drugs hoard and vending. This was when we got a call from Gaurav Sarma who was at Sixmile stating us that there was a robbery in a jeweller’s shop at Bhangagarh but fortunately the robbers were caught hold off by the public and now was under police custody.

We drove to Bhangagarh when…