THE WATCHER: PART 2

           

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 It doesn’t apply to any historical references or real-life incidents.

When Sanjay was renovating the house he bought for his familythreatening letters have been coming to scare him. So he was afraid that something will happen to his family, and not only he investigated the family which lived there before, he took this matter to the police. (Refer The Watcher: Part 1)

After seeing all the letters that Sanjay brought, Assistant Commissioner Akshin Kumar started to investigate further. And as a first step they sent the letters to the forensic lab for testing. So is there any clue available in it, they are trying to find fingerprints on that letter. But they couldn’t find any kind of fingerprint or evidence in that letter.

So the police, started to do investigation if there is any clue or evidence. At the same time, Sanjay’s family was mentally affected. Because of this problem, Anjali was affected by PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) and the symptoms of this disease started coming little by little. So, Sanjay’s family, started to suffer a lot mentally and physically.

Beyond all the hardships and sorrows, with many dreams and desires they had bought this house. Imagine what will be their situation that they couldn’t stay in that house. They couldn’t stay in that house, or pay the loan for the house, so when he was thinking about what to do next. They decided to sale the Shankar Nagar house.

But since many hoaxes have already been talked about the house, no one came forward to buy that house. Now they couldn’t find out who sent that letter. Sanjay’s family couldn’t sell the house also. So when they were thinking about what to do, they come up with a new idea.

What was that mean, to demolish that house, and build two houses there and thought of renting both the houses. So, for that, they put a letter in the neighborhood approval board. But unexpectedly the neighborhood planning board rejected it. They rejected that they should not build a new house by demolishing the old one. Many people in the neighboring house opposed it, now.

“Why don’t you allow them to build a house? They have many problems.” A neighbor named Gayathri said. Everyone supported them to demolish and build a new house. A letter goes to Gayathri’s house the next day without any address.

She and her family were threatened in that letter. What was in that letter means: “No one should demolish that house. Who ever supports the demolition of that house, make sure that everyone is safe in your house.” It was written like that. This forces everyone to stop supporting Sanjay’s family.

The days started moving now. Exactly after two years since the first letter, when all the problems seem to be settled, Sanjay’s family decided to rent the house without demolishing it. But when they were thinking like that, a letter came from the watcher.

Now this letter is more scarier than the previous letter. That is in that letter, he said: “Shankar Nagar house, has escaped from your destructive plan. Now all the people in your street are waiting for my order. They do what I say. I’m confident that the house will be saved. May be your car can hit by an accident or your family members may get some kind of disease. Your pet dog may die or your loved ones may die suddenly. When you go in a bicycle, car or flight, it may crash. It can even break your bones. Anyway, I will win at the last.”     

At least before this, the letter said: “I’m watching you.” But now a death threatening letter has arrived. Sanjay’s family members were scared and went to Akshin Kumar again. Akshin sends the letter to the forensic lab once again. Now when they checked that letter, it is clear that this letter was written by a woman. For all these days, Akshin and the police department had no trace of who had been they looking for, it was a relief to have such a lead in this case.

So by the found leads, the police added three suspects in this case. In that, who was the first suspect means, the night before this letter arrived, at 11:00 pm, there was a suspicious looking car outside the house of Shankar Nagar and it was recorded in the CCTV camera.

The police after tracking the car, the car left from there and went to a girl’s house and stopped. So Akshin thought that girl is the cause of all this and starts investigating her. While investigating he came to know that the girl’s name is Manickavalli. She was not the one, who was driving the car. It was her boyfriend Rishi Khanna who drove the car. He is a gamer. In other words, Rishi was the one who has streaming and playing online games.

As Akshin starts to wonder with her statements, Manicka asked him: “Do you wonder what it have to do with that game sir?”

Akshin didn’t utter any words and just started at her. She continued to tell him: “There is a huge shock waiting for you sir.”

An angry Akshin gets up from his chair and said: “What the hell?”

“Sir. Do you know the name of the game, Rishi was playing?” Manicka asked him with a cool attitude. Akshin asked her: “What the fuck*** game it is?”

“The Watcher.” She said to Akshin. Immediately the police asked her Rishi to come for the physical investigation and the boy also accepted the investigation and went there. But in the investigation, he said: “The letter has n

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othing to do with me sir. I came for a job near that house. Apart from that, I didn’t do anything else.”

After investigating him, Akshin meets Sanjay who asked him: “What happened sir? Did they tell anything?” Akshin said everything that happened during the interrogation. Sanjay looks vexed after hearing the events, that happened in the interrogation room.

“I shouldn’t tell you these things. Since I see the problems, you go through, I told beyond the rules, Sanjay. Though the police didn’t believe him, they didn’t have any other evidence to arrest him. They cannot arrest him because of a game he plays.” He added: “Anyone can play this game, Sanjay. So with this one reason alone, we cannot confirm him as a culprit. So the department released him in the suspect list itself.”

The next day, Akshin turned this case to their second suspect Michael. An important reason for making him a suspect in this case is, in a few days after the first letter arrived, What Sanjay did is, he went to a party next to the Shankar Nagar house. At the party, Michael’s father, Sam Jacob was staying near the house since 1970’s. Moreover, he died only 12 years ago. Now Michael is the only one in that house they said.

That’s when Sanjay remembered during the interrogation with Akshin. In the first letter which came to his family, that watcher’s father was watching the house since 1970’s. Now he is watching instead of him. Henceforth, Sanjay suspected that he might be the Watcher.

There is another important reason for suspecting Michael was the watcher. Since, he has a habit of looking through the neighbor’s window. All those in Michael’s family, will behave very differently. That’s why Sanjay thought Michael must be the watcher. Now Akshin started to investigate Michael.

But he said: “I didn’t do this, sir. I have nothing to do with it. I’m just waiting to looking out of my house. How can you tell that I’m the one with this?” So Akshin tried to match Michael’s fingerprint and handwriting. But the letters that came to Sanjay did not match his handwriting. That’s when another thing strikes Akshin.

The letter before this has been confirmed as it was written by a woman. So he thought that it was Michael’s sister Aby. So now he matched the handwriting and fingerprints of Aby. But as no one expected, her handwriting also did not match with the letters. A dejected Akshin removed both the gamer and Michael from the suspect list.

FEW MONTHS LATER

SULUR COMMISSIONER OFFICE

“If I tell who the third suspect means you won’t believe it, sir.” Akshin said to the Police Commissioner Rajendran, whom he met to inform about the case progress.

“Why Akshin?”

“Because, it’s none other than Sanjay and Anjali sir.”

“Why you suspect their family?”

“Why I suspect Sanjay’s family means, when his family planned to demolish the house, the neighborhood board rejected it. So, all the neighbors supported him. But, a threatening letter was sent to the supporter sir. No one else sent the threatening letter. It was Sanjay and his family.”

“It’s too shocking to hear Akshin. What are you telling? Are you speaking with sense?” An angry Commissioner asked him.

“It’s too shocking to hear right, sir?” A while after blinking, Akshin said: “I was shocked too sir.” He reveals, how they cracked the case:

“When we were inquiring about that letter to Sanjay’s family, Sanjay said- Yes, I wrote that letter. And told me he did this for his house. Not only that sir. Sanjay’s family, prior to this, his house was valued at Rs. 3,15,000. They have moved into a house worth Rs. 77,00,000. After that, at last they had come to this Rs. 1.3 million home.” Commissioner is shocked upon knowing this.

Akshin said further: “To buy this house, they took a loan because they did not have that amount to bring this house. So to pay off that debt, they need an amount sir. For that only, Sanjay thought: if The Watcher case went viral in the news, a lot of people will talk about it. Only then the people who take real life story documentaries will come in search of them. Even if someone wants to make a movie about this, they should contact Sanjay’s family directly, sir. And have to pay a certain amount to the family to take the movie. So they will get money from that.”

Akshin suddenly wakes up from his bed around 3:30 AM. The above things were all his theoretical assumption about this case. As he believed firmly that they made this story viral to gain attention. But, he can’t move further as there’s no proper evidence for these assumptions and it’s still not available.

“In this case, among the 3 suspects anyone should be The Watcher. But till now the watcher was not found.” Akshin had been thinking about the case, while sitting in his chair. That time, Commissioner called him and said: “Akshin. Forget about that closed case and go to Sulur Aero. As Minister Balaji is arriving in his car. You have to clear the public.”

He agrees eventually and proceeds to Sulur Aero.

EPILOGUE

“A word is changing the entire mental state of the family means, think how much power words have. My point of view regarding this case is, The watcher is definitely Sanjay’s family. So readers, comment your opinions down without forgetting.”