Nirupama

Nirupama-13

NIRUPAMA

(Some Secrets May Better Remain Secrets Forever)

'I cannot bear this', 'I want to pluck my eyes out' only these two sentences were the clues which the late girl Nirupama left in writing one on a wall and one in a book quite unintentionally and involuntarily to know about the reason for her committing suicide. Her father Ranganath, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka along with Nirupama's friend Sukanya pretty well understood that Nirupama did not want the said secret to be known to anyone else. But since her father Ranganath hell bent upon knowing about the said secret, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka ruthlessly investigated the matter only to unearth the said ghastly, shocking and astounding secret which the dead girl terribly wished to keep only with her in her grave forever.

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"Alright. What is wrong with it then?" taking that book into his hand Smaran asked him.

"Just open that book at the folded page Sir." Sudarshan said to Smaran and Smaran just did that.

"Can you find something written with some black pen on the top of the page on the left side?"

"Yes" Smaran said.

"Can you read what that has been written there?"

"Hundred percent. 'It has been written 'I want to pluck my eyes out.'" Puzzling in himself for that Smaran said.

"There is no doubt to me at all. It is the handwriting of Nirupama."

"You are damn sure about this? Is there no possibility at all that someone else might have written this?" Smaran frowned.

"Not at all. It has been written only by Nirupama. I have seen her hand writing many a time. She used to write on the books and I scolded her not to do like that. I do well know her handwriting. There is no doubt at all."

"I want to pluck my eyes out'. Why did she want to pluck her eyes out?" the frown on Smaran's face was even more deepened.

"That is what I too cannot understand. Why anyone on earth want to pluck his or her eyes out?"

"She left another puzzle to us to solve." Smaran said.

"Or is she indicating something to us?" Sudarshan asked.

"She is not indicating anything. She does not want anything to be found out about the reason of her suicide. It is something quite unintentional work by her. She had written this also quite involuntarily as she had written that thing on the wall."

"What she had written?"

Then Smaran explained to him what had been found in Sukanya's bedroom.

"There is no doubt now that she was suffering with something and that compelled her to commit suicide."

"We have come to that conclusion even before finding her handwriting like that on the wall" Smaran said.

"Is it is so." Librarian nodded his head. "Anyhow is this going to solve the riddle now?" indicating the book with his index finger Sudarshan asked him

"I am not sure." Smaran said. "But we have got something more and we need to work with it carefully"

"If you don't mind, may I take this book with me?" showing that book to Sudarshan, Smaran asked him after pausing few seconds.

"It is the library property. It should not be given like that to anyone." Sudarshan said and laughed in the end. "But I know what you are doing and for which you are asking that book. Take it. I can manage."

Smaran left the library with the book in his hand.

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"Ever your daughter suffered with her eyes?" Smaran asked Ranganath who sat quite opposite to him.