WAR IN THE CURSED LAND✔️

8

As the sun rays touched his face dev woke up. He rubbed his eyes and smiled by looking at amukta who is still asleep. He brushed her hair lightly and got down from the bed. He glanced at the clock. It's 6 : 10 am. He did morning chores and woke up amukta. He went into the kitchen and made coffee for both of them. Later he made his signature breakfast which is upma. Amukta eats upma only if he makes it.  She came to the kitchen wearing a beige colour cotton saree.

Amukta : oh ! Someone decided to bless me with their handmade food. 

Dev : but my master chef is not at all teaching her recipes to me. 

Amukta : what will you do by learning them ? You will be always busy with your work. Drop me at the lab soon. I have lot of work to do. After getting conclusion on that i'll tell you.

Dev : ok ! 

Dev served the upma in a plate and passed it to her. She signalled him to get his plate and have his break fast. He shook his head as no. She fed him from her plate. After having their breakfast they were about to leave. That is when vinod arrived on Dev's bike.

Vinod : I don't know if Vasudev sir will be mentally stable by the end of this case. He is getting hell frustrated.

Dev chuckled. 

Dev : he is always like that. But there is no one who can succeed him .

Amukta : can i talk to the person who performed the examination on that hand ?

Vinod : sure amukta ! I'll send his number to you !

Dev : when will you return ?

Vinod : actually i have a good news for you buddy ! I was appointed to help you in this case.

Dev : that's great . My work will get easier.

Vinod : that must be a great honour that i have received in recent times.

Dev smiled.

Dev : let's get back to work. 

Vinod shrugged . He shook his head and followed dev and amukta. After dropping amukta at the forensic lab dev went to the police station along with vinod. He introduced vinod to rajat and other police officers who are working along with him  for solving this case.

Dev : So, our target is an extremely intelligent man. He is involved in various crimes which includes murders , robberies, illegal businesses and smuggling. He is involved in narcotic plants smuggling , animal skin and nails smuggling and of course he is also involved in organ trafficking. His biggest confidence is his clear idea about every single corner in the vast forest. He have people who will rather die for him instead of exposing him to the world. No one knows how he looks like. He is really proud of his crimes and he thinks himself to be a dominant human. But we have to prove him that we the indian police force is capable of. For solving this case i need hundred percent dedicated and loyalty from every single police. Starting with constables to till myself. We all should work together for ending this monster's atrocities.

With dev's words every single person in the room got genuinely motivated. Dev was initially perplexed by seeing the lazy and lay back attitude of these police men and woman. He felt that even they are not at fault completely. It's the lack of awareness among people which is stopping them urging police support. He assigned few officers to check the vehicles which are entering into the forest from various directions. All forest check-posts are improvised in terms of security and surveillance . This whole improvement is done by the addition of policemen under disguise at all forest check posts .

Dev decided to concentrate on petty crimes all by himself for creating an impression in Jara's mind that he is not trying lock horns with him. He himself went to enquire about a theft case in a small village. Few people are murmuring about him and those reached his ears. He smirked and came back to the police station. He have a strong feeling that dealing with these people need lot of information on their loop holes and their disturbing past events. He have a feeling that those are going to be his weapons against him.

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Amukta is engrossed analysing the skull that they received. Luckily she found little traces of DNA in it. She amplified it and started her work. A senior forensic doctor is supervising the lab investigation . He is quite impressed by amukta's abilities. She made a clear report and sent it to dev.  Immediately she received a call from him.

Dev : amukta ! Does it belong to an oldwoman ?

Amukta : yes !  I communicated with all DNA databases managers . We didn't get any match. I am not understanding why he killed a 65 years old woman and sent her skull to us. And there is something that was missed by the team who worked on that hand. There is a tattoo on it. A name is written on that hand. 

Dev : what's that name ?

Amukta : kalavathi !

Dev : what ?

Amukta : yes ! That hand belongs to the previous PT teacher of the school in which kalavathi and mythri works. The one whom we met yesterday joined 3 months ago.

Lab Assistant  : amukta ma'am !

Amukta : yes !

Lab Assistant : a man is here to meet you ! He is saying that he is your husband's relative.

Amukta : what ?

Lab Assistant : yes ma'am !

Amukta : I am coming.

Amukta : dev ! Did you hear that ?

Dev : yes ! I am wondering who is that relative of mine. Don't cut the call. Go and meet him. Keep  your pistol with you. Put on your airpod.

Amukta : ok !

Amukta tugged the pistold into her saree near her waist. She walked towards the waiting area and saw a middle-aged man sitting there. He looks like a typical village headman found in films. He noticed her and gave a small smile to her. 

Amukta : namsthey !

Raghava Raju : namasthey amma ! My name is Raghava Raju. I am from a nearby village. I am your husband's maternal uncle.

Dev : ask him to go away amukta ! 

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How's the chapter ?

Who is that uncle ? Does Dev know him ?