The Painting

Well known Detective Rohit Dutta was hired for the loss of a Lord Ganesha Painting from the house of Dr Ragav Choudhury.

Dr Ragav Choudhury’s house was located at North Kolkata. He used to stay with his wife Mrs Nirmala Choudhury and two maids. He had a lot of precious things in his house. From showpieces to paintings , he had a lot. But out of this things he had a painting of Lord Ganesha which was given to his grandfather by the jamindar of Jaipur. The Painting was nearly 100 years old.In the painting there was ‘ JG ‘ label written at the top.

In the meanwhile, Dr Ragav was out of station for one week. After arriving home, he noticed that there was no ‘JG’ level on the painting of the Lord Ganesha. He called Detective Rohit Dutta, who was a friend of his friend to help him to get the painting.

After getting the call, Detective Rohit Dutta arrived at the scene, after 2 days of loss. He started to interrogate one by one. At first he interrogated Mrs Nirmala Choudhury. He asked her everything about the last one week. She said that she only went thrice outside of the house. Twice to the shopping mall and once to her relatives’s house. The two servants of her were at the home all time, they only went outside only when she say so.

The two of her maids was husband Sekhar and wife Rekha. They used to work together at their house from the last 20 years. She and Dr Ragav have full trust on Sekhar and Rekha. Before asking anything from Sekhar and Rekha, he checked the cctv footage and checked who came to the house before Dr Ragav came to the house. Detective Rohit Dutta checked the days Dr Ragav was not at home 6 people checked into the house. One was the gardener, 2nd was food delivery men, 3rd one was the driver, 4th one was the two air condition repair man and finally Rajat, cousin of Rekha.

Each of the outsider does not stay for more than 2 hours other than Rekha’s cousin Rajat. He stayed for 1 day. According to Rakha, he came here to see Dr Ragav, as he had a hamstring pull on his left leg. As Dr was not at home, he left out next day and went to another hospital. But what caught the attention of detective was, Rajat has came to the house with bandage on his left leg, but the day he left it was on right leg. Detective Rohit informed the police and the police arrested Rekha and her cousin.

As Rekha used to live here for years, she were aware of everything. She sent a photograph of the painting and Rajat with the help of a painter made a fake one. When Rajat came to the house, he replaced the original with the fake one. Police arrested Rajat and handed the original painting to Dr Ragav Choudhury.