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Insta Infamy

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       19-year-old Srikanth is a resident of a village on the outskirts of a big city. After passing PUC, he joined a hardware store in a nearby urban area. After closing the shop at 8 o'clock that night, he left for home on a scooter. Then a car coming from behind Srikanth hit his scooter. Srikanth fell down. As he got up, four people got out of the car and came to him. While watching, they stabbed Srikanth in the back and chest, got into the car, and left.      Injured Srikanth was screaming loudly in pain. To his credit, a person who had come there saw him and rushed to him. After hearing what happened, he called  his friends to the place. Friends of the stranger who reached there within five minutes took Srikanth to a nearby hospital in their car. Srikanth told the doctor how the stab wounds on the chest and back happened. The police were immediately called. He also told the police that some youths who came in the car punched him from behind a...

Betrayal On The Tracks

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       It was a night in July 2020. It was two o'clock. A super   fast train from Chennai to Mumbai arrived at Yadagiri railway station and stopped for two minutes before moving forward. Minutes after the train left the station, a woman in the S-7 s l eeper coach started screaming, 'Oh, someone has stolen my bag.' Hearing her screams, the fellow passengers who were sleeping woke up. Someone pulled the chain and stopped the train. Meanwhile, the train was ten kilometers from Yadagiri and had moved forward.       As soon as the train stopped, the loco pilot, guard, and one R.P.F. Constable came to  S-7   c o a ch. Seethalakshmi, who had lost her bag, told them what had happened. They called the Karnataka railway police constable who was on the duty in that train. Seethalakshmi said before him, 'I am traveling from Chennai to Pune. At night, I slept with my handbag under my pillow. I had a deep sleep. I woke up when I felt someone ...

Strange turn

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Belonging to a middle-class family, Somesh was employed by a private company in the city. He had admitted his 19-year-old son Shankar to an engineering college through a donation fee. Somesh's wife, Meena, had a brother named Mohan. He had farmed in a village near the same city. He has only one daughter, Rupa. She is two years younger than Shankar. By the time Shankar was in high school, Somesh was in a job where he was getting transferred frequently. So he had to leave Shankar at Mohan's house for three years to study. Thus, Shankar became close to his maternal uncle and his family. Since Rupa was studying at his school, they used to go to school together. The rivalry between the two has grown even more since childhood. All the relatives who saw both of them said that you two are a very good couple. Immediately after hearing this, both of them were blushing. After finishing high school, Shankar returned to his father's house and joined college. Every week, he used to go to...

Untied knots

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    Murali, who was the manager of a bank, was living a happy retired life. He owned a two storey house in the metropolis. He lived downstairs with his wife Manorama (55), son Manjunath (37), daughter-in-law Rashmi (34), and two grandchildren. Manjunath was a sales manager at a big store. Rashmi used to help her mother-in-law with housework. Murali had rented out his upstairs house.   When the house became vacant, Murali started looking for tenants. Then an unmarried young man named Akshay (28) came and asked to rent that house. Murali told him categorically that they do not give rent to unmarried people, but he was not quiet. 'I will get married within another year. If not, get me out of the house,' said Akshay, who immediately gave up even one year's rent. No matter how much Murali refused, he was not satisfied. At-last  rented his house to him. Akshay, who was a great musician, was also a good singer. He was doing night shift duty for 15 days a month. He used to c...