THE KOLKATA SHADOWS | Chapter 8: Beneath the Ashes
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THE KOLKATA SHADOWS | Chapter 8: Beneath the Ashes
The excavation equipment arrived at the old hostel site within ninety minutes—a small miracle in Delhi's bureaucratic landscape, achieved only through Deputy Commissioner's direct intervention and Vikram's increasingly frantic phone calls. The parking lot had been cordoned off, curious onlookers pushed back behind hastily erected barriers while confused car owners argued with constables about retrieving their vehicles. Vikram stood at the center of the lot, staring at cracked asphalt that had covered the site for over two decades. Somewhere beneath this ordinary surface, buried under meters of fill dirt and concrete, lay the ruins of the hostel where three students had died. And somewhere in those ruins, Malini Mukherjee was making Rohit Chatterjee pay for his crimes in the most visceral way possible. "Sir, ground-penetrating radar shows hollow spaces consistent with basement structures," the survey engineer reported, pointing to his laptop screen covered in incomp…
