Indian Penal Code :Section 375

“Not now please”, Raghu thought. This was the third time he was promising his wife that he will take her for a movie. So he was going to leave 2 hours earlier so that he can spent at least an hour at home before going to the movie. It was at that time a woman with an attempted rape case came running to his office. He realized that he is not going anywhere for at least an hour. That is one of the inconveniences of being a police officer; you don’t have time and life of your own.

She was breathing heavily. He asked her to sit and calm down. He gave her a bottle of water to drink. She drank the entire bottle and breathing started coming back to normal. He looked at her; she was in her mid-thirties, very beautiful, other than nail polish, she had no extra make ups. She was wearing a yellow sari and a yellow blouse. Hands of the blouse were partially ripped off, and her sari was torn here and there. It looked as if she was the victim of an assault. 

“He tried to rape me”, she said.

Yes, it is evident; Raghu thought. There were lots of nail marks on her hand and shoulders. She was gasping and it looked like she won’t be able to tell completely what happened. She needed time to relax. So Raghu called a lady officer to take the photographs of the marks and bruises on her body, which can be listed as evidence. He just asked her the name of the guy who did this to her. It was her boss. He took the phone no from the lady and asked him to come to his office immediately.

When the lady came back, Raghu asked her to elaborate the things happened.

She said her name is Swati. She is working as an Cashier at “Dollar Exchange” owned by Mr Chandrakanth. She was working overtime after office hours along with her boss as suggested by him, since there were lots of works pending.

“When everybody else went and we became alone, he tried to……” She started crying again. He told her to relax and then filed the report.

A car came outside the station. It was Mr.chandrakant. Raghu took him to a separate room and interrogated him.

“She is lying sir”, Chandrakant said.

“Sir when the cash closed yesterday, I found a deficit of Rs 2lakh. Since she was the Cashier, I asked her. She told that we can sit and recheck that, next day after the office hours. I agreed because it will be very rush at officer hours and we don’t have that much man power to manage things. When we sat after office hours, she left that room saying that she will come in a minute. But she didn’t come. When I asked the security guard, he said that she had left the office screaming and her dresses were torn. I tried on her cell but it was switched off.”

The lady officer came back with the photos. Raghu and Chandrakant came back to his office with the lady officer. Swati and chandrakant looked each other. She was scared and he was angry.

Raghu looked through the photos and a smile rose around his lips. Looking at the photos he said

“well, I have enough evidence to prove your guilt, so you are under arrest.”

Mr.chandrakant got shocked and said

“I swear I didn’t do it sir, I have a small kid at home; I don’t behave like this to women, ask any one if you want”

“I know that”, Raghu said, “bye the way, I was not talking to you, I am talking to you Swati, you are under arrest for faking a rape”.

Raghu asked the lady officer to take her in custody. And said

“All these bruises and marks are made by her only. Check her nails. I am sure that we will get at least a piece of skin from there, mark it as evidence”.

Mr.chandrakant said thanks to Raghu for saving him. And while leaving he asked

“Sir what about my 2 lakhs?”

“Give a petition tomorrow; we will look into that too”. He said

The lady officer came back as Raghu was getting ready to leave. She asked

“Sir how did you know that she was faking the rape? ”

He smiled and said

“From those pictures, madam. You see, When somebody try to rape any one the marks orientation will be from top to bottom and inside to outside. But look at this pic. This mark on her thigh, it’s from top to bottom but outside to inside. This happens only when you try to make a mark on your own. ”

She seemed pretty impressed. But the she was not quite sure why Swati did it. Raghu told her

“Her MD was going to file a case against her, So if she trap him in this case, she can make others believe that he made that case to take revenge on her. Nobody listen to guys, lady ….So she would have been in a strong position if the case were filed”.

She smiled and said” You solved a case in 45 minute sir, great”

He said” I had to. Have you ever heard of a phrase ‘majboori ka naam hai mahathma gandhi’… Majboori madam Majboori”

Raghu ran out of the office since there was only an hour left for the movie as she smiled at him.

Genetically Acquired

Mr And Mrs Jeevan’s hearts were filling with joy and proud, looking at the photo of their parents. Joy because their only son was going to get married and proud because, to well understand that part, it is necessary to go through the history of Jeevan.

Jeevan was born in a typical “jameen” Family. His parents possessed all the typical characteristics of landlords. It was at that time he fell in love with Riya, a girl from different religion. When his parents heard about it, as we see in all the love stories, it became a big issue and His parents tried all the clichéd methods to make him break up with her. But since he was their son, who genetically acquired their stubbornness and ofcourse their cunningness, he overcame all these and got married to her.

On the day of marriage, outside the registrar’s office,  in front of everyone, his parents told him

“One day you too will have a son or daughter and they are going to put you in a situation like this, then you will understand how much pain you caused us.  ”

Since he had the genus of his parents, he was not in mood to loose, he said

“Ofcourse not, we will let him or her live on their will, we will never impose anything on our children, so no way that anything as such will happen.”

 So when their son came to them a day before and said that he had found his partner, even without asking her name Mr and Mrs jeevan said

“Invite your friend for dinner tomorrow”

So they were proud that they kept the word and happy that a new member going to arrive in the family.

“Mom, Dad here is the one I love”

The proud parents turned around and looked for their” Hone wali” Daughter in law, they saw a man standing near their son.

“Mom , Dad He is the one I am in love with”

He said, putting his hands on the shoulders of the man.

The proud (?) parents screamed

“What the F….”

Keep Smiling

She stood near the window looking at the full moon sky with a smile on her face. It was her way of relaxing. It was a habit she got from her husband. He used to stare at the sky for a long time when he was stressed or unhappy.  She remembered the last time when she stood like this. Unlike this, at that time she wasn’t alone, she was with him, and she was in a state of confusion and he was trying to resolve it.

He was sitting on the window looking at the sky and she was there beside him looking at him waiting for his verdict. Then suddenly he stopped looking outside, took a deep breath and looked at her and smiled at her like “I will tell you what”

“In my opinion you should go.”

She looked at him as if how can she do that.  He continued

“Look, getting an invitation from this University to do research along with their research team is surely a milestone in your career that others will die or kill for. So I will say that renouncing this chance for anything is not sacrifice; it is just a stupid decision that you are going to regret”.

She looked at him like she was not convinced and asked

“How can I just go leaving you and our baby here, she is just two year old and FYI we are talking about going to a different country for two years?”

He stood up and looked in her eyes. Stroking over her hair upward down and told

“Look, there will be some moment in everybody’s life where they feel bad about the things they have missed that they could have achieved easily or they could have at least tried of doing. I don’t want you to have any of such moment in your life. If you give up this chance for me or just because you feel that I won’t be able to take care our little princess alone myself, I won’t be able to forgive myself because what being with me has costed you and I am ready to do whatever it takes to make sure that anything such won’t happen”.

She hugged him, rested her head on his chest. Tears came from her eyes. She looked in his eyes and asked him

“Do you love me that much?.”

He nodded

“Then what you will do till I come back?”

He smiled and kissed her and told

“As they sing in that song,

 Where ever you go whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you,

 Whatever it takes for that my heart brakes I will be right here waiting for you”

They laughed.

She stood there with her mind exploring those things happened three years before. On previous day he died of an accident and she even refused to see his body and those who asked her about this got an answer which they were not able to digest

“To me he is alive in my memories, I still feel him around and I don’t want the last memory our life to be him being dead and this feeling will help me to keep my life going.”

But she told herself the truth that

“He wanted to see me happy all the time, I won’t be happy even for a second after seeing his body. Since I need to keep the feel alive that he is with me, I am not going to see him dead. I want to live this life as he wanted me to, happily. I owe him more than that and this is the least I can do”.

She looked at the moon and smiled.

First Love: Worst of all my mistakes

This is not what I thought would happen. This is not what I had prepared for. I thought I never will be shocked hearing her after I proposed her. Because I had the “funda” of expecting the worst. I used to tell my friends, who unfortunately were the victims of my philosophical “atyachar”, that…

“if you are going to propose a girl then expect that she will tell that you are like a brother to her. Because even if she says she is not interested in you, she may get interest in future. If she is married she can get divorced or widowed in future”.

I know what you are thinking, yes you got that right, I am a mean bastard. And I used to continue…

“But if she calls you ‘bro’. Done. Dead end. Forget it. So if you expect the worst,  everything will be best”.

Since I was kind off a cool guy I never was supposed to be shocked after hearing whatever she told me after I proposed her. But speaking frankly that was one dimension I never had really thought off.

On the day of the proposal I called her in the morning and as planned asked her out for a dinner. She said yes and I was really happy that everything was going smooth and fine and as planned (Most important). As I posed throughout, I was an expert in everything, even in love dating etc etc, even though not experienced, I never had a doubt about doing a perfect proposal. You may ask that how an inexperienced man can be an expert, well I would like to put it in this way that ”I would like to learn from others mistakes”.

On that beautiful night I proposed her in a way that wanted, rather I was dreaming for a long time. And as I used to suggest to others I was expecting the worst reply. She didn’t reply. Instead she posed a question to me.

“Gautham, I am in love with guru, one of my classmates. I told my parents about the affair, but they didn’t’ agree since he is not from our state, so we decided to run away from home. Can you pls take me to the railway station at 2’O clock in the morning?. And pls make sure that my parents doesn’t know about it.”

This angle I was not really expecting. First thing that came into my mind after hearing that was a scene from an old Tamil movie. And you know what I did? . Yes got it right. Since I am a mean bastard I informed her parents. She doesn’t know I was behind it even now.  Now she is my wife as I dreamed and because of that only reason I really feel that on that day I really should have helped her to run away.