2nd May, Thursday, 2000
In the wee hours of the next morning, Vineet got a call form Mrs. Lena. She was insanely sobbing and groaning over the phone as she informed the death of Mr. Suri to him. Vineet was stunned listening the news .He quickly contacted other executives. All of them reached at Mr. Suri bungalow at around 4.40am.The police had already arrived at bungalow, and was conduction investigations.
As Vineet and Rohit, entered they saw the dead body of Mr. Alok Suri. Her wife was sitting beside the dead body, sobbing insanely. Vineet came close to Lela and asked inquired about the murder. Rohit on the other hand, was talking with the police regarding the previous night’s details.
Ms.Rupali arrived at the around 10.30pm, as she was not present in the city the previous night, when the incident happened. Ms. Rupali consoled Lela; while the police took a close inspection of the murder site. The body was sent for medical inspection.
After sometime the police came beside Lela, and asked her to lodge an F.I.R. regarding the murder. Vineet accompanied Lela, up to the police station along with the officer in charge. The superintendent of the police (SP) Mr. Sunil Rathore, along with the Assistant commissioner Mr. Vimal Gupta, was informed simultaneously.
At the bungalows, with the help of Rohit, Rupali informed the relatives. Roy informed the CDS group directors about Mr. Suri’s demise. It was decided that the CDS will not halt business as it would likely to create a bad impression among employees, investor, creditors, and suppliers, among others. The executives decided over the phone, among themselves to delegated most of their functions to their respective department heads. Lela along with Rupali went straight to the company to break the news. At around 2.30pm, local media and newspapers reporters were informed about the incident formally.
But the news of the death of Mr. Simon already had spread like wild fire across the city. Major businessman, politicians, film personalities arrived at the bungalow in the evening to offer their support. It was a sensational case as it was mysterious murder of a famed businessman. The SP of the police was once again arrived at the evening with the post mortem reports and the dead body of Mr.Suri. He handed over the post morten reports to Lela. Later the body was sent cremation. Major personalities across the city were present at the cremation to pay their homage.
At eight pm, Lela came into her room and glanced at the reports, Vineet and Ruplai were all the time with Lela.
Ruplai called Rohit at their bungalow: together they took a cursory look at the reports. The reports provided detailed account of the cause of death of Mr. Suri. It was stated in the medical report, that he was on drug on the night he was murdered. The deadly wound on his head was due to the bang of hammer. But what was startling was the mention of spots of rings around his neck. The death was due to choking of the throat of Mr.Suri.
The SP himself handled the murder case of Mr Suri, on the request of Mrs. Lela. For the purpose of a preliminary investigation all the executives were called at the police station. Each individual statements was taken by the SP. Later on it was cross checked by the SP among the executives, with each executive to verify the veracity of the statements of another executive Mrs. Lela on questioning by the SP got furious at him. However, as it was a murder case so, the possibility of anyone’s involvement cannot be ruled out.
In the evening The SP went to meet Mr. Ashok Singh, a lawyer cum private detective. Mr. Singh had a reputation of solving difficult corporate cases, be it financial fraud, stock market manipulations and cold blooded murders.
