Meanwhile Amar developed high fever which would not respond to any treatment and the temperature rose high and higher in spite of the best treatment available at the time in the provincial capital and poor Amarendra passed away in December 4,1933. The young zamindar was still in his teens.
The family and Pakur citizens and friends in Calcutta were understandably shocked and Bina wept uncontrollably and performed the traditional funeral rites and rituals of his dear departed brother.
However Dr Santosh Kumar Gupta was intrigued by the blood tests. The dedicated professional conducted "Blood Culture" and injected it into a couple of rats. Much to his shock the rats died within a few hours. The conclusion was obvious and inescapable. Plague!
Dr. Gupta had no doubt that Amarendra’s death was the consequence of the injection of the deadly plague bacilli. No doubt about it! He wondered how Amar, a wealthy man of status had fallen a victim to plague. And then he heard about the Howrah Railway Station incident. It was now clear to the doctors and the family that Amar had been deliberately murdered by the injection of the deadly bacilli. It seemed impossible and incredible too but it was the shocking searing truth....
There have been murders by many methods in many parts of the world but never in the history of Crime and Murder was a person eliminated by such a monstrous method. Who could have done that? And how?
It became evident to the Pakur zamindari family women that the dark dirty man was responsible for the dark foul deed. It was also clear that he was a henchman of somebody hired to carry out the nefarious and most sinful act. Who was that somebody?
The Pakur family adviser and lawyer Kalidas Gupta came to Calcutta and | and met Balikabala, the attractive mistress of Bina. She frankly told the senior lawyer that she had been friendly with Bina for well over a year and her house was the venue of her lover’s frequent meetings with a man. Who was he? Dr. Taranath! The family lawyer sat up feeling distinctly uneasy. Left with no option he went to the Calcutta Police and filed a criminal complaint which was immediately taken up for investigation by a senior Sub- Inspector. The facts that the he unearthed were quite interesting. During the previous Durga Puja Festival Amarendra stayed at his aunt’s palace in Deogarh. Bina called on him and accompanying him was a man, a compounder ! During the visit Bina tweaked his brother’s nose playfully and in the process he rubbed something greasy over the nose! The same night Bina and the compounder left for Calcutta. During the night Amar fell seriously ill and the local doctor diagnosed it as ‘ tetanus fever.’ At once the aunt sent a t |
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