Chapter 9 The First Clue

• 'Did you notice the TV Mrs. Ghosh ? Shivangi looked at the broken LED screen in horror. The screen was sunk inwards giving rise to a vent which went deep into the wall behind, yet it didn't bore a hole through it . It looked as if someone had dug a tunnel inside the TV to pull something in. 'Could be a chemical reaction which caused the explosion', Arunava Sarkar murmured to himself. 'Can a TV explode by itself ? Is there some major electrical dysfunctioning in the circuits in this flat ?' He called the constable to collect samples of the wreckage. The forensics would take care of the rest.
• 'Your sister had placed requisition for a mechanic .. a TV mechanic. The apartment owners' association informed us. She had complained that a particular channel was always showing up whenever she pressed the remote. And then videos would keep playing all by themselves with the remote failing to pause/ stop them. Reporting the cable operator had not helped - there are many users of that network here and they weren't facing the issue. A TV mechanic had visited the flat today, we checked from the registers. We've called his number but found it switched off. I've send my boys to the shop's address and they'd round him up soon for questioning'. Arunava apprised of the situation to Shivangi in a single breath.
• Suddenly something fell from a rack of the TV unit on his shoes. He shone his torch below and found it to be a small wooden box. Alarmed, Arunava took out the revolver from his waist holster in a jiff and pointed it at an invisible enemy..