| 'Time' Series: Book One |
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The workings of her brain were a mystery to her own pneuma.
That's what Hinduja Rao always thought.
But, quite similar to her thoughts about her own self, was someone else around her.
Her newly wedded husband, the...
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53 | Aravind Hariprasad
| 18th May |
| Morning |
The door of the conference hall was provided with a slight thrust from outside, with its knob visibly rotating on its own axis.
The DCP fixated his gaze at the entrance as a new face entered inside the conference hall, followed by the IG and his two minions.
"Team, rise." He hurled out a command, and all ten members of the SIT, along with Dr. Kanwal Dheer Chadha and Dr. Rukhsaar Fathima, got up from their seats all at once.
Unlike the IG, who looked as if he was going through the last phase of constipation, the senior official walking ahead of him towards the central chair, on the other hand, smiled at them all benevolently.
"Sit down." His gentle voice reached their eardrums.
And as he positioned himself behind the central chair, the IG stood up one step behind him with the two constables. He cleared his throat and began, "Officers, please welcome Retired Director General of Police, Mr. Aravind Hariprasad." He paused, smiling at the senior official. "The case we have been working on is, in fact, a serial crime case, and sir here has extensive experience in handling such cases, so, from here onwards, he will guide you all until the Maia's month case comes to a conclusion."
Hinduja looked on as Raghav nodded his head for once while a crisp greeting escaped his lips. "Jai Hind, sir."
The others followed.
Aravind Hariprasad smiled again. "Sit down." His sparsely scattered salt-and-pepper hair rested effortlessly on his round head while his kind yet sharp pair of eyes behind the glasses examined them all in quick succession.
