Motive for Murder
“The city burned, fire lighting up the night sky. The city of
gold burned with each passing minute as Hanuman, like a cloud
charged with lightning ,leapt from porch to porch ,house-top to
house top setting fire to other sections of the city like a human
torch. All was well until Hanuman dropped dead . . . .”
The director was furious, for it had been a long and
monotonous day, and all he wished for was an impeccable shot.
When Hanuman did not respond to the director's disparaging
and vituperative words, the director went up close to the actor,
who was lying face-forward on the ground. As soon as he turned
the actor around he almost gagged as he was confronted by the
sight of a contorted face. It took him a moment to regain his
bearings and called an ambulance. By the time the ambulance
arrived on the scene a crowd had gathered around the poor
man. The crowd mumbled away in curiosity as it scrutinized the
cold body from far-off. In the crowd the killer smiled slyly as he
watched the body being carried into the ambulance. He smiled
as he knew that the actor had already ventured onto an eternal
journey never to return again.
The actor identified as Ram Chandran was declared dead on his
arrival at the hospital. The cause of death had been a massive
myocardial infarction, which explained the curious contortion
of his face, it being a common symptom of heart malfunction.
The queer occurrence of this event attracted the attention of
the local authorities, who openly expressed their displeasure
at being pestered with a case which seemed to have been
caused by natural reasons.
The post mortem report reaffirmed that the victim had died due
to heart attack which had caused organ failure and respiratory
failure but could not give any conclusive inferences about what
may have triggered it in the body of an otherwise healthy
person without a history of heart ailments. The report came like
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