The Agents were all in casual dress. (yeah why would they have to let the public know who they are!).
They introduced themselves to Srini and started asking questions.

Bob : “So you work for this company and you say you develop softwares, isnt it ?”

Srini : “Yes sir…sorry..yes officer, but can I ask you something, before I answer your questions ?”

Bob was just staring at Srini and Bill came closer and told “yeah go ahead !”

Srini : “I am not sure if I can ask this or not, can I…Can I see your ID card ?”

“Oh Sure, Srini ” They said, showing their IDs and Srini took a quick look at them.

Srini : “ok..yeah ok. let me answer your question. I work for the company for the past 3 years”

Bob : “you know there is a guy, living next door to you (he tells his name), have you ever talked with him ? do you know anything about him ?”

Srini was kind of relieved as Bob comes to the point straight and also because he realised he is not in their list.

His voice gained some strength now and he said, “I havent talked to him except a hello, or good morning here and there. Is he doing anything bad ? do I need to be concerned ?”

Bob : “No..No..you dont need to be concerned. it is just that his car was seen in some doubtful places…and we do inquire atleast two of his neighbors before we go meet him directly. thats it. this is just an usual thing.”

Srini is completely relieved now and he said “oh yeah…” with a sigh.

and then they talked for some more general things, exchanged their business cards and just when they were ready to leave, Srini asked this question.

Srini : “and by the way, Bill was mentioning I definitely look like him, what is that all about ?”

Bill started to laugh a bit and then calmed down.
Bill : “You dont look like any suspect. Just before meeting you, we met your brother in your house.
He said you will be looking like him almost. thats all”.

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[The End]

[The Incidents and characters mentioned here are all fictitious, It doesnt imply either you or me or that other person]

Bob was telling Bill, as he came forward to take a closer look at him. Both Bob and Bill are the security agents for the country’s investigation center.
They were standing behind Srinivasan, a guy from India who is working as a computer engineer in this country.

Srini is clueless about what these guys are talking about and was having that puzzled look in his face, quite similar to the look of the broiler chicken that is ready to be cut.

All these were happening on a public place, where the agents have asked Srini to come over. This meeting was planned a day before itself, and since then Srini has never slept.
He has been thinking of so many possibilities about why he might have ended up in the agents list.

Something inside of him has started to question him.
He had started to talk with himself.

He : “May be is it because I make too many phone calls to India ? do they think I am trafficking something from India ?”

Himself : “No No…they wont know who I call in India, they only know I call a toll free number here quite often” .

He: “hey come on, how long it takes for them to tap your phone calls ? ”

Himself : “but then they would have listened to all the ’sweet nothings’ I talk with my girlfriend and that should have removed me from the list”

He : “oh thats right , may be you took a lot of money from the bank as cash, the bank would have informed it to them”

Himself : “oh no..that may not be the case, but even if the bank does inform, it would only be informing the local police and not the agents ”

and so on and on, he kept wondering.(just to give you an idea why he did not sleep.)

Today, as he was getting ready to leave the home to meet them, he remembered his chat with one of his friends a couple of months back.
His friend was on the agents list and was making fun of him during that time.
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Srini : “Hey, just be cool and answer whatever questions they ask you with plain truth, and do not over react. Sometimes they can even put you in prison for no reason and they might take your hearing after six months !”

His Friend : “what ? they will take my ear ring after six months ??? why ? I dont have an ear ring , first of all ?

Srini : “Hey come on, HEARING man, not the ear ring ! you already are over-reacting..haahhaa yeah they will take your ear ring, do you want to know what else they can take off from you ??? haahhaa haahaa”

His Friend : “Hey come on, stop it man, when they come after you, then you will know”
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He kept thinking about it (is it this guy who made me in the list ?) as he walked towards the agents in the public place.

(To be Continued)
[The Incidents and characters mentioned here are all fictitious, It doesnt imply either you or me or that other person]

[Continued on Part 2 ]