Cursed

Episode 18

The police station was situated at the other end of the cottage. A constable ran inside the station.

'Sir, there is a loud blast in the village. We should check it.' he informed the station in charge.

The station in-charge was lying on a bed inside his room while a man massaged him. He was chewing paan, and his lips had turned bloody red. He opened his mouthed and let out a spray of betel juice in the dustbin which was kept near his face. The dustbin had seen better days. The colour of the dustbin has slowly changed into dark red and black because of the heaps of betel juice being deposited inside it. The top handle of the dustbin is broken, but it still serves its purpose. The dustbin was three fourth filled with dry betel juice and residues of it.

'Who would clean the dustbin? Do you think I would call my father to clean it up?' shouted the officer.

The constable shook in fear and he came forward to take it.

'Are you a fool? Now you would do all these things. Call Deba and tell him to clean it. He is not just here to enjoy the free air and food of the lockup and if he tries to run away, shoot him. Ok.' ordered the station in charge.

Deba took the dustbin. The inspector stood up and came near the constable. His breath was mixed with country liquor, roasted chicken and loads of betel juice. He looked at him and said, 'What do you think we are here to do charity?'

'Sir, I don't understand.' said the constable.

'Wherever anything happens or not happens, you expect us to waste our time. I am telling you, Shukhi ram, stop using your brains and do what I ask you to.' ordered the inspector.

With it, he got up and started wearing his uniform. 'I am going home. Do not disturb me till morning.'

With it, the inspector started the engine of his jeep and moved towards his house. As he was going through the narrow lanes, he could see some golden light coming across the narrow slits in between the forest. He slowed down his vehicle, got down and went ahead. It shocked him when he reached the location.

From a distance, he could see many people with arms had surrounded an inconsiderable amount of people and were about to execute them. He did not understand what to do. He knew Opasnost' gang had fallen. He knowingly was not taking any action thinking they were killing the culprits, but this is the opposite. He knew he cannot fight them. So, he called the station and called for backup and he waited. He tried calling Sukumar, but no one responded.

But he was not aware of one thing. There were three teams in operation. When he was observing them, Suraj and his team had taken cover. They had surrounded the inspector. With a swift action, they put a blanket over him and started hitting him. After a while, they dragged him to the open ground. Joseph turned around and looked at Suraj and his team. They were in their hoods. They looked at each other for a moment.

Suraj spoke, 'We found him spying on you. I think he would be a pleasant addition to this troupe.'

With it, the inspector was dragged and was added to the men of Opasnost'.

'The police is on its way. You cannot run away from it. You cannot kill a law officer.' said the inspector. He was visibly shaken.

'Who said we want to kill you? If we kill you, who would tell that all these damages were done by the Opasnost' gang.' said Joseph.

'I would never betray Sukumar Ji.' shouted the inspector.

'Do not worry about it. Even before you would betray him, he would betray everyone. I don't think he has in him to take the torture we would inflict on him.' said Rohan.

The inspector said nothing as he believed in what Rohan had said. Everyone heard the faint sound of sirens approaching the location. A smile spread across the face of the inspector.

'Now what would you do?' said the inspector with a smirk on his face.

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard multiple sounds and bullets whizzed past his ears and he saw all the members of the Opasnost' gang along with their group leader lying dead on the ground. It took just a moment to finish one of the most dreaded criminal gang.

'Quick, take those middle women and go from here. We will handle the police.' shouted Joseph.

'But Bhai what about you?' said Suraj.

'Do not worry about me. Abbas would accompany you. Now run fast. We have little time.' ordered Joseph.

They ran inside the cottage and asked all the middle women to accompany them if they wanted to live. They followed them, and in a couple of minutes, they left the place. Now Joseph stood with some of his men with his gun pointed towards the inspector. The inspector was still on his knees.

The police vehicles arrived and so did another private vehicle. The police were shocked by seeing so many dead bodies lying around and their inspector on the knees and bleeding.

'Surrender yourselves to the police or we would be forced to shoot you.' said one of them from the police team.

Joseph laughed and said, 'Try to shoot one bullet and none of you would go out of her alive. My men have already surrounded the place. They have their guns pointed at you. Just step back or else along with you we would kill your inspector as well.'

As he finished saying it, the door of the private vehicle opened and an old man wearing a white dhoti, blue kurta came out. He walked towards the police. The police people saluted him. He looked at Joseph and said, 'Fire.'