arrest in peace

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ARREST IN PEACE

THE CASE :

The dead body of a 3rd year CSE

student was found in room no.114 of

TM University ,Gurgaon.The

deceased,named Sam, was found

eaned against the wall, along with a

suicide note.

The weapon used for death was

found in his right hand.Police has

registered it as a case of suicide.

STATEMENTS

1. SECURITY GUARD :


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It never really looked like a

normal day.I generally have my

duty at the gate,and thats

where I love working.People

come and go,its quite nice

interacting with them.Good way

to pass your time.But my boss can create a

nuisance for me

sometimes,shifting my duty to

awkward places.You tell mesir,what can a security guard

possibly have to do with gardens

and flowers.Yet,there I was,all

morning,stamping the wet flowerbeds with my foot all day,just so

that some sick gardener could


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grow stupid plants.I went in at

around 11 oclock,all tired by my

morning effort,and the guy tells

me to patrol the first floor.I tell

you,the boss has hated me ever

since my arrival into this college.

I left for my duty immediately ofcourse,so that the old boy does

not get angry.While passing

through the corridor,I saw a boy

using his cellphone.He did notnotice me,as I watched from the

window of the closed door.So I

call him out,and who else could it

be but Sam.I have caught thatlittle brat( may his soul be

blessed) talking over the phone


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security office,to go to boss,and

ask him what to do with the boy.I

did not find boss in his office,and

after some contemplation,I

myself wrote an application to

the boy and went back to him.On

my way,while passing over room122,I saw boss in quite a heated

conversation with a boy.I once

thought of going to him and

telling him about what I haddone,but then thought

otherwise.You would appreciate

my decision if you knew the kind

of anger my boss possesses .So,Iwent back to room 114,handed

him over the letter I had


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written,and started patrolling

the floor once again.It was after

some time,that I again took a

stroll to that corridor,and saw a

boy turn into the corridor just as I

did.It was the same boy whom

my boss had just recently beeninvolved with in a chat.I was not

amazed to see him,as boss had

just passed me in the opposite

corridor,about 5 minutes ago. Hewas in quite a hurry,moving to

room 133,I gathered.A teacher

had called him and that must

have saved this boy,who hadbeen suffering his wrath since


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the past 1 hour,as I have been

told.

So, going back to where I was.I

saw this boy in the corridor,and

he saw me.He walked towards

room 114,and so did I,from the

opposite direction.He suddenlyopened the door to the wretched

room,and gave a shout.I was

nearly at the door too,moved

immediately,to see what he saw.Isaw poor Sam lying dead in a

pool of blood. I then tried to

do,what I was supposed to

do,holding the boy back,whiletrying to start the camera of my

phone,to click pictures for the


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police.The most sensible thing to

do,they told me.But then I lost

control of the boy, and he ran

towards the body, must have

been his dear friend.

2. TEACHER :Yes,I was the teacher for his last

lecture. I teach them WC,and am

in CSE department.Nothing much

happened during my lecture.Thekid looked happy,although I

cannot say that he definitely

was,since I did not talk to him

even once during the entirelecture.I distributed their

sessional exam sheets and


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allowed them to come to me in

case of any doubt.Some sheets

were still left unchecked,I

checked them.I distinctly

remember that Sams sheet was

one of them.He got really good

marks. I gave him his answersheet and rested for some

time.There really was nothing to

do,as I had left all my stuff,even

my purse at the staffroom.Cannot bring all your

stuff,with so many sessional

sheets in your hands.Theres

nothing more to tell really,helooked quite well in my class,I


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collected the sheets in the

end,and left the classroom.

3. GIRLFRIEND :

This has really come out as a

shock.I cannot believe he killed

himself.I left the classroom,withother children.Sam and me had

not been on talking terms for

quite some time now.I really

loved him,and he loved me morethan one could imagine.He was

very possessive too.But,he had a

lot of financial problems.and was

going the wrong way,in his life,tobe truthful.I tried to persuade


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him to change,but he just could

not,no matter how hard he tried.

Some chap had threatened to kill

him if Sam was unable to return

his money that day.That is when

I decided it was time to call it

quits. I sent him a message andtold him I wanted to break up.He

said he could not live without

me,and immediately sent me his

picture saying sorry.Then he saidhe really would die if I left him.I

tried to convince him that break

up was the only option,but he

just would not listen.It was thenthat I messaged him to say that I

was coming to talk to him.I went


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to room 114,we talked for about

5 minutes.Surprisingly

enough,he said he would talk to

me after some time.Never has he

ignored me before.I left him in a

state of anger.Then I received

this message from him,and wasleft in tears.I nearly choked on

reading what he wrote,but

somehow kept my faith in him.I

wanted to go back and talk tohim,but I saw a guard looking in

at his room,and I decided to talk

to him later. I was just passing

the staff room to go downstairswhen our WC teacher,who had

just come out from staff


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room,moving into the corridor

,asked me what happened.I just

could not say anything and ran

downstairs,to my friend Namitha.

4. BOY (Rohit) :

It is true that I had threatenedSam the other day.But trust me

on one thing,I would never do

something as horrible as this.If

you think logically too,I am notan imbecile to threaten him

openly,and then kill him too.I did

not know him before I lended

him the huge sum of 10k .It wason a friends

recommendation.Anyways,there


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I was,that wretched day,sitting in

my classroom,early

morning,wondering where to

arrange 10k from.Actually,I gave

Sam money,after borrowing it

from someone else.It was only

when that guy threatened to killme if I was unable to return his

money the next day,that I

threatened Sam with the

same.The next day arrives andhe dies.My hard luck.He had

messaged me in the morning

that he would be returning my

money.My happiness knew nobounds when I read his

message.I saw his timetable to


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find out when he was free,and

went back to class.It was very

unfortunate that the head of

security caught me in my so

called illegal act,just in the

previous lecture,and stretched

his conversation to the nextlecture.How I wished he would

just leave and let me go to Sam

to get my money.I ran to room

114 as soon as he left,for theyhad a class there just the

previous lecture.Cannot think of

anything else,when money is

involved,can weThough,I hadlittle hopes of finding him there

since his break had started quite


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a while ago.The rest is as the

security guard told you.

5. Head of Security Office :

I have never liked that

person( security guard).How can

someone possibly appoint an exconman to be a security guard in

such a prestigious

institution.Still,cant deny a

recommendation from the deanhimself.But I have never trusted

this man,always in need of

money.Never have I seen such a

greedy man.I would not besurprised,if he killed the poor

student.


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6. FRIENDS ( DK and Sunny) :

It is true that we were his closest

friends.We were just like

brothers.The incident has really

shocked us.We always knew that

he loved the girl enough to diefor her,but we never expected it

to happen.Also,he had looked so

cheerful the entire day.He had

said that his money problemswould be a thing of the past,soon

enough.But his most exceptional

achievement had been his ability

to leak a question paper inITMU.We could hardly believe it

when we saw the same


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questions appear in the exam

that he had told us.His genius

was such that he somehow

managed to talk to the teacher

about the question paper,in front

of the entire class.They had

generated a ciphertext amongstthemselves,and that,he said was

the way to go when you wanted

to do something private.It has

never been a secret to anyone ofus that the teacher had been in

need of money.I remember how

we chatted in the lecture before

he died.He just refused to givehis answer sheet to anyone.Only

two of use knew why,and we


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winked at him.May he get more

papers leaked is what we

prayed.He generally goes with us

during the break,but that day he

decided to stay back.Not

surprising now though,since he

planned to kill himself. If onlyI(dk) was there,I would have

somehow made him see

sense.But both of us sat quietly

in a room on the groundfloor,talking to friends.Altough,I

(dk) did come upstairs once to

take my pen back from the

teacher.I had given it to herduring the previous lecture.I

found her ,sure enough,outside


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the staff room.She nearly

freaked out on seeing me,quite a

nervous person,poor lady.The

guard ,who was talking to her

calmed her down,and I went

back after taking my pen from

her.Had I known that somethingwas about to happen,I would

have gone straight to him.

7. POLICE :

The police has declared it to be a

case of suicide.Police officials say

that the boy killed himself,as hisgirlfriend broke up with him. Poor

girl,cried her heart out when she


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received his message saying that

he would either kill himself if she

did not come back to him,or

would tell her secret to

everyone,so that she kills

herself.

The gun found in his hand hasbeen confirmed to be the

weapon used.Police says that the

boy shot himself right through

his heart,and died instantly. Heart is equally sensitive as the

brain.The boy perhaps knew that

shooting at heart gives instant

and least painful death,and so heshot himself there said the

doctor.The boy also left a suicide


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note,though it does not reveal

much.

There was such a large number

of these guns sold illegaly at

cheap rates during last year in a

racket,that it would be stupid to

even think that the gun waslicensed. They do not make a

noise too,silencers are smartly

installed within them People tend

to keep guns with them forvarious reasons,women for

security,men for fun.What they

do not realize is the threat they

pose to themselves when theyhave a gun at hand. Said a

senior officer.


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