Poison by Jon Wells

Author:Jon Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The symptoms sounded like strychnine poisoning. Korol and Dhinsa assumed the babies were cremated, which meant there was no forensic evidence to be found. Sarabjit told the detectives how Dhillon had insisted she not name the newborns. He had said it would bring bad luck. Sarabjit said Dhillon had visited his sons just once, here at her home, and had been alone with them for several minutes. She talked hesitantly about her life with Dhillon.

“My parents kept telling him that he should take me to Canada,” she said quietly. “He just kept saying, ‘I’m getting the papers ready.’ ”

She stared at the floor as she spoke, averting her eyes from the men.

“Jodha told people that I had been married before, and that I was really 40 years old, and that I had children before. My grandfather yelled at him, swore at him. ‘Take me to the one who said this,’ he said.”

They were nearly finished the interview. Then Gurjant said to Dhinsa, “Would you like to see where they were buried?”

Buried? They were buried in the village cemetery. Dhinsa, a Sikh who had attended a Catholic school in India, didn’t know that infants were not cremated. Gurjant led the detectives from the courtyard, turned left up the dirt road, then right. They passed through a large green metal gate and along a narrow 100-meter path through a corn field toward a five-foot-high brick wall enclosing a rectangular area. Korol, Dhinsa, Kundu, and Sarabjit’s family marched up the path, the same one they had walked to bury the boys. Inside the brick wall lay a funeral pyre block. The rest of the cemetery was dirt baked hard as concrete, weeds and sharp-edged shrubs and plants growing wild.

Inspector Subhash Kundu at the gates of the cemetery

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