DRAMA
O.C.
Bhangagarh Police Station
Bhangagarh
Guwahati-781005
Assam
December 18, 2017
Subject: LOST LENOVO MOBILE HANDSET WITH 2 SIMS (Jio and IDEA) FOUND ON THE ROAD
Sir,
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 17 December) - at about 3 p.m. - I found an old Lenovo mobile handset lying on the road on Lane 5, Tarun Nagar, Guwahati-781005 in front of Babyland Montessori School (run by Mr. Kallol Kirity Sinha), with two sims - Jio* and IDEA** - inside the mobile, the date on the mobile screen surprisingly being MONDAY, 28 AUGUST. Since I cannot locate the mobile owner, I am handing over the mobile to you for your kind disposal to the owner of his/her lost mobile.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Jitu Mani Barman
C/o Mr. Kishalay Sinha
House No. ..., Lane ...
Guwahati- ... [PIN CODE]
Assam
Mobile: ...
Enclosures
(Photocopies of 2 sims)
* Jio - 9101948903
** IDEA - 9553820752
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE DRAMA WILL FOLLOW...
(See "DRAMA: THE MISSING SMARTPHONE" *** below)
As a precautionary measure, I have omitted from the letter quoted above some details of My address (My House No. ..., Lane ..., the PIN CODE) and My mobile phone number to prevent the possibility of unwanted letters and phone calls from unethical s. female fans. To be fair to My female fans (if there are any), I have NEVER RECEIVED A SINGLE LETTER FROM A SINGLE FEMALE FAN - I get one or two calls in about three or four months but always from some unknown female staff of some Internet company or other. So, My dear FEMALE readers ("dear" is not to be regarded as an endearing term in the wrong sense), I thank you all from the bottom of My heart (IF I have a heart?) for ensuring A PEACEFUL ATMOSPHERE at My home so essential to the scholarly pursuits of A Great Scholar like Me.
*** DRAMA: THE MISSING SMARTPHONE
Indian Army intelligence, CIA, FBI, FSB, INTERPOL, EUROPOL, CBI, ISI, NSA, GCHQ, NASA etc. know the full details, I believe. However, I will give details online by and by for My billions of very eager and inquisitive readers. (Moral: Never trust anyone.) - G
A young Assamese boy, Jitumani জিতুমণি (he writes his formal name as Jitu Mani, not Jitumani which is more usual), who is the son of poor parents who live in a very small house near My building (which I got from My pater late Krishna); the poor boy's father is a taxi driver (probably a Uber driver) while his mother runs a small hotel for poor customers who can eat rice and freshly cooked dal and sabzi and fish fry or fish curry or boiled eggs or omelette at very low cost - although I am NOT poor like those who eat lunch at her small hotel (in Indian English, "hotel" is widely used to mean a restaurant; a "hotel" is often not an accommodation where travellers/travelers can stay temporarily for some time on payment of money for the period of their stay in the hotel), I got to know the poor Assamese family when My consort had gone to Punjab with My sister to visit her married daughter whose husband works in Punjab; during the entire period of My consort's long absence of 17-18 days, the poor Assamese family fortunately came to My rescue by daily providing Me with very inexpensive and nourishing freshly prepared lunch and supper (supper only for Me at My request; the hotel is open only for lunch). By the way, My consort often takes out food from the fridge and therefore the food is often tasteless. I have not been able to change My consort's firm habit, so I have given up trying, though I notice with pleasant surprise that when she invites her brothers & Co. to partake of food, the food which I eat along with her brothers and brothers' families, always happens to be quite tasty. (My consort is the eldest of her late parents' progeny; she is the BOSS of her 4 devoted brothers; she has no sister, thank God - what a relief, right?) I help the poor boy Jitumani who is very eager to learn: I buy help-books in Assamese medium for him and have arranged a mathematics tutor for him - a very hard-working struggling young Bihari college student, Neeraj, who has to do a lot of private tuition (he finished his B.Sc. 5th semester exam a few days ago; for three or four days just prior to his exams, I helped him with his mathematics and physics courses).
THE CASE OF THE MISSING SMARTPHONE
Yesterday (Monday, December 18, 2017), Jitumani came to My house at about 2 p.m. and he told Me: "Uncle, I found a mobile yesterday, and it is LOCKED, and it has two Sims," and showed Me a black mobile handset. I asked Jitumani where he had found it, and he told Me he found it lying on Lane 5 of Tarun Nagar last Sunday (December 17, 2017) right in front of the children's school Babyland Montessori School which is now being run by Kallol Kirity Sinha (Raja), only son of My late brother Kirity Sinha by his first (deceased) Assamese wife late Ranjana who was an ACS officer, daughter of late Robin Choudhury, who was adviser to late Hiteswar Saikia, ex Congress Chief Minister of Assam (a mediocre Assamese female violinist who appears on Assamese TV news channels from tIme to time looks very much like late Ranjana - she is late Ranjana's clone, I am pretty sure). I told the little boy Jitumani: "Cheats বিলাকে তোমাক আৰু তোমাৰ দুখীয়া মা দেউতাক ভুৱা mobile চুৰি কাণ্ডত ফচাব খুজিছে কিন্তু তুমি চিন্তা নকৰিবা কাৰণ মই CHEATS বিলাকৰ বাৰ বজাম ।" ("Cheats are trying to implicate you and your poor parents in a false mobile theft case but don't worry I will give the cheats hell." I did not tell the innocent boy that ALIENS were behind this.) I could not find the name of the mobile anywhere on the mobile cover but the smart young boy showed Me how to find the name of the mobile: "Uncle, You have to switch off and then switch on the mobile - and the name of the mobile will appear" - indeed, when the procedure was followed, I saw that the name did appear: LENOVO.
I told him I would go with him to Bhangagarh police station whose staff are always very friendly with Me and Jitumani would hand over the lost mobile to the police station who could later hand over the mobile to the owner of the mobile handset if he or she was able to give proof of ownership. I activated My mind into famed detective Sherlock Holmes mode. I asked the little boy Jitumani to give Me full details and on the basis of the details the young boy gave Me, I quickly reconstructed the entire sequence of events:
As Jitumani was coming by cycle from Bhangagarh toward his house in Tarun Nagar, his location was being relayed by mobile by members of the gang of cheats to other members of the gang of cheats. As his cycle was coming along Lane 5, a Uber car with passengers was coming along the SAME Lane 5 BUT FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION and almost hit him when he came near Babyland Montessori School and to avoid the approaching Uber car he quickly turned his bicycle and got down from his cycle on the side of the road near Babyland Montessori School, and saw the black Lenovo smartphone lying upside down on the road - he picked it up, and as he stood up he saw that Shankar was standing near him and staring at him and when Jitumani reached his house, Shankar followed him to buy something from their small shop.
I wondered if Shankar would turn out to be a potential witness of the "theft" of the mobile when the mobile was "located" by modern technology. I asked young Barman, who works at a mobile shop in Tarun Nagar to find the mobile numbers of the two sims: he found the numbers:
Jio - 9101948903
IDEA - 9553820752 (Barman told Me that this mobile number belongs to a state outside Assam)
I entered in ink the two mobile numbers in the printed copy of the letter to the O/C of Bhangagarh P.S.
I got photocopies of both sides of the two sims (Jio and IDEA sims) and attached the photocopies to the letter addressed to Bhangagarh O/C.
I gave the two mobile numbers and photocopies of the two sims to the police because with additional information obtained from the mobile handset we would hand over to the police, it would be very easy for the police to bust the gang of cheats.
Shankar is a pleasant young guy I have known for many years because he has been working for many years at MEGHNA MEDICAL in Tarun Nagar at "ABC" near Rajiv Bhawan, headquarters of Congress Party of Assam, and also Shankar has been a tenant of My late brother's son Raja/Kallol Kirity Sinha for several years - Babyland Montessori School is on the ground floor [Am. first floor] of the three-storey building, Raja lives with his wife Seema and their little son on the first floor [Am. second floor], and Shankar and other tenants live on the second floor [Am. third floor].
I quickly typed the following letter in English on My PC signed by Jitu Mani Barman (C/o Me) addressed to the O.C. of Bhangagarh Police Station, and I made several printed copies of that letter with My Canon printer, one to give to the O.C. of Bhangagarh Police Station, one as a RECEIVED copy, and others for My own future use (perhaps to give to top authorities if necessary), and Jitumani and I went to Bhangagarh police station, carrying the lost mobile handset with us.
O.C.
Bhangagarh Police Station
Bhangagarh
Guwahati-781005
Assam
December 18, 2017
Subject: LOST LENOVO MOBILE HANDSET WITH 2 SIMS (Jio and IDEA) FOUND ON THE ROAD
Sir,
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 17 December) - at about 3 p.m. - I found an old Lenovo mobile handset lying on the road on Lane 5, Tarun Nagar, Guwahati-781005 in front of Babyland Montessori School (run by Mr. Kallol Kirity Sinha), with two sims - Jio* and IDEA** - inside the mobile, the date on the mobile screen surprisingly being MONDAY, 28 AUGUST. Since I cannot locate the mobile owner, I am handing over the mobile to you for your kind disposal to the owner of his/her lost mobile.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Jitu Mani Barman
C/o Mr. Kishalay Sinha
House No. 10, Lane 5
Guwahati-781005
Assam
Mobile: 8135818039
Enclosures
(Photocopies of 2 sims)
* Jio - 9101948903
** IDEA - 9553820752
[I have given My complete address and My mobile number with the confident hope that no unethical s. female will try to contact Me in the unethical sense. If any female ever tries to contact Me, of course I will be very polite - and frustratingly and brutally distant and unresponsive, so why would any s. female want to wreck her fragile unethical heart? - G]
Kishalay Sinha [G] Tuesday, December 19, 2017
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