Doll

NOTE: This story is based on the author's fiction. It doesn’t apply to any historical references or real-life incidents.

This might be a happy moment for lots of people in this world, or it might be a normal life. But for some of them, it might be a painful moment. Have you ever thought In a very happy life—ok, maybe a normal and calm life—what will you do if it is destroyed in a second? What will you do if your family and friends are not there anymore? We can’t even think of that situation, right? But think about it: in this huge world, at least one of them might have gotten into this situation.

July 8, 2003

COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU

A phone call came to a pizza shop called Little Krishna in Nilambur. The cashier who attended the phone call thought that it would be the usual pizza order. With a happy, smiling face, he attended the call and asked, "How can I help you?"

But when he answered the call, the smile on his face faded away and changed into a confused face. In that phone call, unexpectedly, on the other side of the call, he heard the scared, panicked, and crying voice of a small girl.

Usually, the customers will happily order the pizza. But the voice of the girl in this phone call was very different. Even though he has doubts without showing them out and without disturbing the customers by asking unnecessary questions, he kindly asked the girl on the phone what she wanted to order.

The small girl also ordered what pizza she needed and started giving the address for the pizza delivery. She said the address by repeating it after someone. After noticing all this, the cashier hung up the phone. But even after that, he felt something in his heart. His conscious said that something was wrong with the phone call.

A thought strikes his mind. By seeing how the small girl spoke, the cashier understood that someone was controlling her.

"Why should a small girl call the pizza shop and speak in fear? Maybe she has some problems? Or else she might be in danger. But if she is in danger, why didn't she call 100 directly and inform the police? She called the pizza shop and ordered a pizza." At the same time, when a lot of questions were running through the cashier’s mind, the pizza that the girl ordered got ready.

Meanwhile, in Chennai, a girl went missing three days ago, and the photo of that small girl, Harini, and her missing poster were given by ACP Harshini to alert everyone through the media. But in India, if a child under 18 years old goes missing and is not found within 2 days, the chance of getting them alive is reduced. But the police will find the missing people somehow. But not alive. They will find their dead body.

It has been three days since Harini went missing, and Harshini has started searching for the body of the small girl seriously. But without thinking of it, Harini’s mother, with the hope that she would get her daughter alive, was working on giving the missing poster of her daughter to the people.

Because of that, even in the pizza delivery box in that area, her missing poster was pasted. At the same time, when it was going like this, the delivery man of the Little Krishna pizza shop took the pizza that the little girl ordered and went to the delivery address.

But when he delivered the pizza box, the small girl didn’t receive it. Instead, a 30-year-old man received it. He got the pizza box and walked to his room upstairs. When he went into the corner of his bedroom, he saw a little girl shivering in fear. He threw the pizza box in her face and asked her to eat it. When the small girl took the pizza box faster, her eyes were filled with tears when she saw the missing poster on the pizza box. She started to cry without knowing it. (Why she was crying after seeing someone else's missing poster.) It was not someone else. Since it’s been three days since she went missing, everyone has been searching for her dead body. But no one expected her to see the pain of her own missing poster.

The one who ordered the pizza, the person who was in the missing poster, and the one who was crying after seeing it—all of them—were Harini. She ordered the pizza under the control of the kidnapper on his phone.

Why did the kidnapper order a pizza for the hostage? He might have given me the leftover, right? Or he might have kept her starving. But he didn’t have any reason to treat her to pizza. (Then why did he like this?)

In jail, before a few minutes when the person was about to be hanged to death, they would allow them to eat the food. That only happened to Harini also. Since this pizza was the last meal she was going to eat.

Three days before

The kidnapper took Harini to his room upstairs. He put Harini down at his room door and took the key to open the door from his pocket. Seeing this, she was scared. Since she knows that he is going to keep her in that room. If Harini wants to escape from the room, she needs those keys. At that time, when she was thinking about it, the kidnapper opened the room and aggressively threw her on the bed. In that, her back and head began to hurt. But without considering it, she started noticing the room.

In that small room, there is a small TV, a bed, and an attached bathroom. She started to notice everything and wanted to escape from that room. But she realized that even air could not get out of the room. Now Harini, who was thinking that she could escape from there, started fearing.

Harini’s life, which was going happily, must not even have thought that it would be turned upside down in 45 minutes.

"How happy I was with my parents. But hereafter, I can see that happiness. Harini was afraid that her life would end in that small room. When she was crying, the kidnapper removed the cuffs from her hand.

Now, the kidnapper stripped her naked by removing her clothes aggressively, and he started raping Harini for the second time. (You will know why I said it the second time afterward.) He started raping her lots of times. She was in pain, both physically and mentally. After every time he raped Harini, he used to ask if she wanted to shower.

Harini will also say yes and go to the bathroom. But before she goes into the bathroom, he will stop her and ask her to close her eyes. The kidnapper will release her handcuffs. It was his routine. To prevent her from escaping through the bathroom window, he ordered her to keep the bathroom door open while she was bathing.

Now Harini went inside the bathroom, turned on the shower, and started crying. She started staying there for a while, thinking that she must be a doll in his hand. At that time, she realized that there were no handcuffs in her hand, and he always kept her in handcuffs.

But when Harini comes to the bathroom, he releases the handcuffs. When she was bathing, he wouldn’t touch, hurt, or rape her. Thinking about all this, she went to sleep that night. The kidnapper slept near Harini, preventing her from escaping. She was thinking about how many days she would be alive by lying in bed and how many days the kidnapper would keep her alive. Like this, she had lots of thoughts.

Even if there is a little movement, he will suddenly wake up and check whether she is escaping. Like this, the whole night passed. When he woke up the next morning, he put on the TV and checked whether there was any news about Harini. That’s when Harini’s brother Hariharan’s interview was telecasted on the news channel. But without just giving an interview to the press, he believed that his sister would be alive.

He started talking to her through the camera. In that interview, he said, "Harini. You are a strong girl. Don’t be afraid of anything. We will save you somehow. So be brave. While he was saying this, Harini was watching it.

Tears filled her eyes when she saw her brother on TV, and the things he said were strongly imprinted on her heart. Harini, who thought that her life was going to end, said that Hariharan’s speech gave her strength. After that, she had a new hope. Her family will save her somehow. Or else she might fight him and escape from there. Like this, she had a new hope.

That’s when Harini had an idea. The kidnapper is much stronger than Harini. She can’t escape by fighting him directly. But somehow, if she gains his trust, she plans to escape easily. Usually, this type of psycho will treat their victims like dolls. They will see them as dolls. Their thought will be that they can do whatever they want with them. Hence, they will torture and kill them without any mercy.

But if they make them realize that they are not a doll but a human like everyone else, the chance for the killers to kill them will be reduced by half. Harini kept her fear away and started talking to the kidnapper. She casually asked the kidnapper where he was from.

When Harini asked this, he suddenly turned from where he was sitting and looked at her with doubt. When he looked, Harini’s face started to sweat. But while he was seeing her, he slowly smiled at her, and it was the first smile she saw in him after she was kidnapped. Now she has hope that she can control him after he smiles at her. At the same time, she felt disgusted.

In fact, Harini doesn’t even like to speak with him. She was so disgusted that she felt like she wanted to spit on his face. Sometimes Harini even felt that she wanted to hit him with something. But she controlled all her feelings and smiled at him. She was conscious of projecting herself as innocent before him.

When it was going like this, since Harini was thirsty, she asked for some water from the kidnapper. If something is needed, the kidnapper will go down and bring it. But now he sent Harini down to drink water. Before that, he released her handcuffs. When he unlocked her, she noticed an important thing.

The handcuffs in her hand don’t open with the keys. It releases when a small button is pressed. Since he closed her eyes and opened the cuffs before, she didn’t notice it. But now, when he opened the cuffs with her eyes open, she noticed it. Harini walked alone from the room to the floor. When she was walking down the street, she was proud that she had gained the kidnapper’s trust. But the main door was just a little away from her, and her freedom was behind the main door. She might have opened the door and escaped at that time.

If Harini escapes, the kidnapper will chase and catch her, and the trust she gained from him will be ruined. She knows that he will do anything after that. Thinking about all the aftereffects, Harini drank the water and went back upstairs. Since she knows how to release the handcuffs now, she collects all the evidence from there when the kidnapper is not home.

Suppose she escapes from the kidnapper or the kidnapper kills her, and she collects all the evidence to make him get caught. Because of that, she collected his watch and the items with rich DNA sources. She hid all the things in her underwear. When she was collecting, she heard the sound of the kidnapper returning home.

Harini was scared. Because when he comes inside and rapes her, he will see the things in her underwear. And if he sees that she is afraid that he will do something to her, Like that, the kidnapper also comes in. Like Harini thought, he started raping her.

But Harini cleverly said that she was in pain and wanted to go to the bathroom. When she went to the bathroom, she hid everything in some other place and came out of the bathroom casually.

Those who have seen this case from the beginning might wonder how a small girl is acting so smartly. And you might think that she had the knowledge that a killer can be caught with DNA. There is an important reason for that.

Harini and her brother Hariharan, regularly watched a show called CSI in their childhood. What was that CSI show? It is a crime scene investigation. In that show, they will explain how the police are catching the killer with the evidence and what was used as evidence to catch the killer. In every case, they will explain it in detail. Harini (who sees it as her favorite show) had all this knowledge.

Harini hid everything in her underwear. In that CSI show, all the sexually assaulted victims will find the killers with sample semen they found in their innerwear. Keeping that in mind, Harini hid everything in her underwear. The time went like this: Now, three days after Harini was kidnapped, she is trying hard to gain the trust of the kidnapper. That’s when he asked her whether she was hungry and wanted to order a pizza, and Harini also said okay to that. But the kidnapper gave her shocking news.

"If you want pizza, you can eat how much you want. But this is going to be your last pizza. Harini realized that the reason he listened to everything she said was not because of the trust she gained in him. She realized that he had done everything because she was going to die.

PRESENT

After this, she called the pizza shop, and the pizza was also delivered to the house. The kidnapper threw the pizza at her and said that it was her last pizza. He left the room, saying that it was going to end.

ONE MONTH BEFORE

June 5, 2003

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Harini Chalavadi lives with her mother and brother, Hariharan. Harini, who was studying in school, was a very brave and smart kid. Usually, she will return home before her mother and brother. Similarly, one day she came home as soon as school was over.

When Harini came home, she noticed one thing. Whenever she comes home in the evening, the main door of the house will be locked. But that day, the main door of the house was opened. Seeing this, she was a little scared. But Harini thought that her mother might return home earlier, so there was nothing to fear. She said this to herself and went inside the house.

Harini called her mother and went to all the places in her home. But her mother was nowhere to be found in the house. She went upstairs and opened her bedroom door. When she opened the door, even though she was standing in her house, she felt that it was not a safe place. Since she felt that the house was under the control of a stranger. When she opened her room, the window was broken. In fact, it was broken, like someone had come inside.

(The things that happened to Harini after that will be more horrible than a movie.)

When she saw that her room window was broken, Harini’s whole body started sweating, and without even thinking, she ran to the living room downstairs. She called her mother through the LAN line. But the call didn’t connect as she thought. Since the telephone wire to the house was cut. Seeing this, Harini went to the peak of fear.

Suddenly, her mind blanked out for a minute. Before she could think of what had happened there, she started hearing footsteps approaching the main door. Hearing this, Harini’s heartbeat was rising. Harini, who was already in fear, ran to the main door faster, locked the main door, and hid behind the sofa in the living room.

After that, in a few minutes, Harini heard the sound of someone knocking on the door. Even though the knocking sound was too low, since she was in fear, Harini felt pressure in her stomach. She was confused about whether to open the door or not. The main door was opened when she returned home, which is suspicious, and her window glass was broken. The telephone wire of the house was cut since there were so many red flags. Harini’s subconscious mind told her not to open the door. But Harini decided to open the door.

Scared Harini gathered her bravery and walked slowly towards the main door. Every second she delayed opening the door, the knocking sound of the door increased. But somehow she opened the door.

When Harini opened the door, she saw an unknown person standing there. When she saw him for the first time, she felt something was not right. She felt that something was going to happen because of him. Now the stranger started asking Harini a lot of questions.

"Who is in the house? Where did your mother go? When will she return? Are you alone at the house? Like this, he asked her

Harini, who was already scared, got irritated by his questions. Without answering any of his questions, she closed the main door. But before that, he caught the door and stopped it from closing. Before Harini understood what was happening there, he pushed her hands away from the door and came inside the house. He carried her to the room.

Now Harini started opposing him and shouting at him. She started shouting and crying. She shouted, thinking that someone might come and help her. But no one came there as she thought, and that unknown person took her to her brother’s room.

The stranger tied her hands and legs. Now he stripped her of her dresses and made her nude. Looking at Harini cruelly, he started raping her. Exactly thirty minutes later, he put handcuffs in her hands, tied her legs with a rope, and put her in his car in the garage where he parked.

The stranger sat in the car and started it. When the garage door was opening to take the car out, Harini’s mother's and Hariharan’s cars came towards the garage. Hariharan, who saw a new car in the garage, became suspicious, stopped his car there, and came near the garage.

When Hariharan came near the car, he came to know that her sister was crying in the back seat of the car with her hands and legs tied. Seeing that, he took a screwdriver and went to attack that unknown person. But that unknown person got out of the car and started beating him horribly.

Harini's mother, who saw someone beating her son, got down from the car and began to beat him. But he started beating Harini’s mother too. Harini couldn’t see what was happening outside the car. But she can hear the sound of her mother, brother, and stranger fighting. Also, she heard the sound of her mother screaming in pain very well.

In a few minutes, she stopped hearing her mother's and brother’s sounds. Harini started fearing that the kidnapper might have killed her mother and brother.

In a few minutes, the unknown person came and sat inside the car. His face was fully splattered with blood. Seeing this, Harini became panicked and asked him whether he had killed them. For that, he smiled like a psycho, started the engine, and left that place.

Now Harini saw through the backside mirror. When she saw that she was kidnapped by someone, she felt happy. She thought her mother and brother were dead. But they were heavily bleeding and crying, and they were running behind the car, calling her name.

At the same time, Harini was traveling by car for a long distance, and she realised that she was far away from home. When she was going into the car to get the attention of others, she screamed loudly and hit the car with her shoulder. Like this, she did everything, but no one noticed her, as she thought.

Seeing this, the unknown person took the screwdriver, turned it backside up, and started hitting Harini in the neck, back, and hand. Without being able to hold the pain, she went backward and hid under the seat.

Even though Harini’s hands and legs were tied, her eyes were not blindfolded. Using this opportunity, she observed the way At the same time, since a minor girl was missing, to handle and solve the case, they appointed a special lady officer, ACP Harshini IPS.

First, she started tracing the way Harini was taken with sniffing dogs. The dogs traced correctly for five kilometers. But after that, since it connected to the highway, it couldn’t be traced. At that time, Harshini noticed a CCTV in the neighborhood. Immediately, they checked the CCTV footage from that day.

Harshini noticed some shocking news in that video. Thirty minutes before Harini came home from school, Harshini’s window was broken. The kidnapper went inside the house through her bedroom and cut the lane-line wire. He noticed the house fully. Exactly thirty minutes later, he came out of the house and waited for Harini. Once Harini went inside the house, he also went inside. After a few minutes, he kidnapped her. This was recorded on CCTV.

Even though they got the CCTV evidence since it was 2003, the quality of the CCTV was low, and this evidence was of no use. Only if they have at least a few details can they issue a state-wide alert, Now, without any alert and with the support of the media and people, Harshini thought that they could find Harini.

The police team stuck Harini’s missing poster in all the places and media. Harini’s missing poster was stuck in the pizza box. After a while, the car went and parked in front of a big white house. The stranger carried Harini and went inside the house, where he continuously tortured and raped her.

PRESENT

At present, Harini is afraid to see her favorite pizza. She couldn’t accept that she was going to die after this. Now she remembered the evidence she hid in the bathroom. She went to the bathroom immediately and wore her underwear with the evidence.

Since the stranger is going to kill her anyway after Harini eats the pizza. Suppose her body was found somewhere, and by tracking the evidence in her underwear, police would find the killer.

Harini threw the pizza from the box away and kept a part of her dress in it and some of her used things, like hair clips. She put everything in the pizza box and hid that box under the bed. This is to confirm that Harini was held in captivity in the stranger’s house.

The police can prove it if they come in search of her. Now the kidnapper, who came to the room after a while, as Harini thought, put her in the bed and pressed a pillow on her face. But in a few seconds, he suddenly stopped it and asked whether she wanted to shower.

"Yes," Harini said and walked to the bathroom. She heard the calling bell sound at that time. (Now we don’t know what the kidnapper thought again.) He carried Harini and walked towards his car in the garage. Now he put Harini in the car and drove fast.

Harini realized that he was taking her to kill in a place where there was no human traffic. Now there is only one thing on her mind.

"I have given my best. In order to escape and make the kidnapper get caught, I did everything correctly. The police will definitely find him. Harini thought, and she prepared to face her death. But in a few minutes, the car came to the city and stopped in a bazaar.

Now the kidnapper grabbed Harini’s hair and pushed her from the car on Nilambur-Avinashi roads.

"See. I am releasing you now. But if you say who I am and what I did to you to anyone, I will come to your house again and kill you, your mother, and your brother. The stranger left from there in his car.

Harini Chalavadi escaped from her bone-chilling captivity. But there Harini did what no one else would do. After escaping without thinking of going home, she went inside a shop and asked the cashier to call 100. The cashier recognized that she was the missing girl.

He understood the situation and called 100, and Harshini came there immediately with her police team. When Harshini came there, Harini said, "The kidnapper went this side. She also said that she knew the house address.

Harini sat in the back seat of the police car and went to the kidnapper’s house. On the way, she told all the information she knows to ACP Harshini. What color his house is? What was the phone number when she called the pizza shop? Like this, she noticed everything and said the phone number too. The police called the pizza shop, gave the phone number, got the delivery address, and went there.

Harshini and her team rounded the house. When the police team searched the house, the kidnapper was not there. When they thought that he had escaped, he hid in the attic. Immediately, Harshini arrested him, and his name was Adhithya Cruse.

Adhithya Cruse was given a life sentence for kidnapping and raping Harini.

Now I will ask you a question. It’s not a simple thing to trick and escape from the kidnapper smartly. At least if our body was found somewhere, the police would track it down and find the killer through the evidence in the underwear. Like this, the girl did a lot of things. What age do you think that girl is? Like a mature detective, she solved her own kidnapping case. Can you believe that Harini was just 9 years old? It is surprising that a nine-year-old girl solved her own abduction case.

Harini is now 29 years old. She lives happily with her mother and brother. Even though she is happy now, it took her 12 years to recover from that. Till the last, why did that kidnapper kidnap Harini? What’s the motive of the crime? And no one knows why he left her alive after he decided to kill her.

EPILOGUE

So Readers. What do you think about this case? Comment on your opinions about Harini’s action without forgetting. Hit like if you like this story.

"Dear readers. I'm thinking of saying something to you now. I thought of saying this to you long ago. I think there is no better situation to say this to you. I read a comment from my best friend a few weeks ago. In that, she said, "Brother. My family is not allowing me to read crime stories. I think a girl wrote that. But when I read it, I felt bad for those parents. Not only parents, but some of your mindset is like that. They are thinking that it happened to someone else, and why should they see it? Without coming and seeing some comedy stories and shorts, they think why should they see this kind of story? But they are not understanding one thing. If a situation like this comes to us, how do we escape from it without being caught? To learn how to not get caught in that situation, these types of stories will be a great help. But most of them didn’t understand it. Because the small thing in this story might be a great help. Do you know how many girls commented on my stories (both on Storymirror and WhatsApp)? They have commented that they are alive today after reading my stories. I have said this to my friends too. My stories are helpful for lots of girls in so many ways. If you have experienced anything like this, comment on it. Seeing that those people who didn’t want to read this type of story may change, Not only that, a lot of people have seen lots of crime videos and wanted to become a forensic officer, a lawyer, or investigation officer. Do you know how many of them have these ambitions? But I don’t know why some of them are thinking like that. There is both good and bad in everything. We can take the good things. If there’s a child, when it grows into a person in this society, he or she must know everything about it and must know what is good and bad. For that, they must know what is happening in this world and the types of people in it. In 2010, in Coimbatore, they kidnapped two children, raped them, and threw them into a canal. It all happened in broad daylight, and that too in the van near lots of people. A lot of people were around the car, walking across it. But they didn’t save the children. Because a black sun film was stuck in the car window. If they see from the outside, they can’t see what is inside. But after both the children were killed, this is why they couldn’t save them. So our government made a rule that no one should stick black sunscreen hereafter. If this didn’t come out, think about how many children might have been kidnapped until now. If you are a parent who reads this story, keep it in mind. Children should know about everything. You are teaching the girls how to be safe. In the same way, teach the boys how to behave with girls and teach them how not to treat girls. They should know everything. If someone escapes from a big problem by reading my story, it’s very happy news to me. I thought of saying this to you for so many days, and this story is a very good example of that. So I have said in this story itself.