A Night on a Highway (completed)

chapter-7

Drum rolls please! Here I reveal the two masterminds who implemented 'Shyam's eviction' plan. A lot of you had guessed one person correctly, but- anyways, here we go:

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Arnav stared at the piece of paper he had taken out of Lakshmi's mouth... thankfully most of it was still preserved and readable and the content made his brain freeze.

It contained notes in blue ink...about various medicines that could be made from daily use chemicals...

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Like a good musician makes use of same 7 notes to make different tunes, a true Vaidya (medical practitioner) makes use of same ingredients for various purposes...like below tips for use of baking soda:

1. Add 1 portion of baking soda and ½ portion of honey, mix an ounce of eucalyptus oil and drink it on empty stomach – doing this for 15 days cures persistent cough

2. Add equal amounts of moringa roots and baking soda and mix them in water and boil the mixture for 10 minutes. Strain it and give it to patient of numbness of limbs or even paralysis – effects will be seen in a week

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And the last one was marked in red ink!

8. This is never to be practiced and only for information! – if someone takes 1 portion of potassium permanganate and 2 portions of baking soda in presence of a mild hydrochloric acid-like the one used to digest food, it can kill a person. EVEN IF the above ingredients are taken within a gap of 1 hour of each other, it can still prove fatal! Use of tangy fruits or sugary syrups along with above substances is known as a recipe of death. We call it Maha vish!

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Arnav felt his hands sweating. This paper was found in Nani's room. A day ago, he had also found a packet of potassium permanganate from Lakshmi-i.e. a sure link to Nani's room! If it meant what he thought it meant, then he needed to take actions! And SOON!

He called Aman and asked him to find some information for him. A.S.A.P.

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Inspector Manik was going through the postmortem report again and again. 'Death due to slow poisoning'. But how for fu*k's sake? He cursed. There was no 'poison' trace in shyam's body neither his team found any poisonous substance in either Gupta house or Raizadas. What was he missing?

And that's when sub inspector Nandini snatched the report from him and decided to read it herself.

"There is nothing in there that we don't know Nandini" he said, massaging his temple

"Sometimes, we think we understand everything, but we don't. we need to give another chance to things, Manik. Be it documents, evidences or ...people" she said, referring to how she has been regretting turning down his proposal years ago and now asking him to give them another chance.

He didn't say anything.

And she read out the report loud. But this time, some lines at the bottom of it,

"Traces of potassium permanganate found in deceased's body." she read out and Manik looked up at her, sharply.

Could this mean something? So far, apart from this they haven't found anything else in Shyam's body.