Thor's Haven by Richard S Young

Author:Richard S Young [Young, Richard S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Richard S Young
Published: 2019-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

10.03am – 11th April, present day.

Srinagar Police Headquarters, Airport Road, Peer Bagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

With a population of just over a million people and thousands of tourists entering the city of Srinagar every single day, the Jammu and Kashmir Police Department is divided up into various wings and branches to deal with the varying everyday needs. The various specialist units such as the Armed Police, Traffic Police, Technical Wing, Civil Defence and Home Guard and the Railway Police all operate out of individually allocated police stations, however, the Crime Branch, has its main centre of operations based within the Police Headquarters located on the Airport Road.

The Crime Branch specialises on investigating the many differing aspects of criminal activity occurring in and around the city and co-ordinates with its sister units to provide effective policing for the community. Their Crime Investigation Department (CID), otherwise known simply as the Investigation Branch, comprises of specially trained officers working in plain clothes and is the major investigation and intelligence wing of the State Police forces in India. This branch of the police is tasked with investigating all of the serious crimes committed including murder, riots, forgery, counterfeiting and cases entrusted to the CID by the individual state governments or by the High Court, such as counter-terrorism.

Billy Pirzada had walked to the Police Headquarters from his sister’s house and now paced back and forward on the pavement outside as he mentally wrestled with himself on how he was going to approach the problem he had. The television news had reports of a double murder of a local man and his grand-daughter, and although the police were following certain lines of enquiry, there had been an appeal for members of the public to come forward if they had any information to provide that could help the ongoing investigation. Billy’s conscience had tugged at him since the day before as the vivid and distressing images of what he had been made to witness continuously replayed themselves over and over in his mind.

He hadn’t been able to sleep during the night and ended up getting dressed and working on his driver documentation and assigning the ownership of his taxi over into his sister’s name. He had also taken the time to write a letter of authority mandating the transfer of the title deeds of his modest home into his sister’s name, Safina, and after having had breakfast, he had driven to his bank, emptied his three accounts and placed a sizeable sum of money within a large brown envelope. The envelope already contained his driving documents and the property certification for his house, and after parking his taxi outside Safina’s house, he had placed the car-keys to the taxi within the envelope, added a letter of instruction for her to follow, sealed it, written her name on the front and put it through her letter box. It was only a short distance for him to walk from her house to the police station.

Whether it was guilt or shock, or both, the events of the day before had affected him.

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