Chapter 306 Crime
Ron visited Aggie's office again. It was bustling with people coming in and out like schools of fish looking for food.
The gang wars that have been taking place across Mumbai have seriously affected people's daily lives.
Especially in South Mumbai, the local upper class is disgusted by the endless crimes, and the police regard the security issues there as a top priority.
Aij is well-known and people have high expectations for him when he comes to power.
Newspapers portrayed him as a savior hero; they talked about his performance in the bombing investigation and promoted him as the only man who could solve Mumbai's crime problem.
This time, Ron brought Mary and Karuna from the TV station with him to collect information and understand the real inside story of the gang war and the interrogation process.
Sun TV will not only do special reports on gangs, but also produce crime-themed TV dramas or police films.
The Indian government's review in this regard is extremely lax, and the scale is so large that even Hollywood in the West is stunned.
Ron has such resources, and Aggie is his good friend. There is no channel closer to the inside story of crime than this.
He plans to make crime suspense the trump card of Sun TV, whether it is documentary reports or exciting gun battle films.
When they entered, they ran into a police superintendent and his informant reporting to Ajie about the recent gunfight.
Aijie nodded frequently, then wrote and drew on the map, issued various orders, roared from time to time, and kept asking questions until the informant swore and gave a guarantee.
The gang wars left him with no patience for slow interrogations, so wherever there was a gunfight, the police would immediately go out and encounter the suspects on the spot.
Ron introduced the people around him to him, but Ajay shrugged and said nothing. He had never been very interested in Bollywood.
Old Lal was stood up by this group of people, which led to a stroke and he was bedridden for several months.
However, Mary was an old acquaintance, and he promised to send someone to be a criminal investigation consultant for the TV station.
After the two sides exchanged greetings, Ron looked around his office.
“This place is like a front-line headquarters.”
"Gang war is also war." Aijie took advantage of the free moment to pick up the coffee and take a sip.
There was a map on his desk and photos of gang leaders on the wall. Ron even saw Johnny.
"I was just about to tell you about this, about the Daoud Gang." Before Ron finished his sentence, the phone on Aggie's desk rang.
He gestured to wait a moment, then picked up the phone and said a few words.
"There is an important informant." Aijie looked at him.
"That's perfect. We can let them see how the police and informants deal with each other." Ron signaled the people from Sun TV to take notes.
Ajie asked someone to bring the informant up. The door opened and an extremely thin young man in his early twenties walked to Ajie's desk and bent down.
He looked anxious and muttered a lot, but Ajie just nodded and let him go.
After he left, Aggie told Ron and the others that the young man's name was Khan, a thief and a notorious playboy, nicknamed "Little White Face", who had affairs with the wives of many gang bosses.
"I envy him." Aijie joked.
"Be careful Ritu." Ron laughed.
Ritu is Ajay's wife. She knows that her husband is popular with women and often talks about it in his ear.
The two chatted and laughed for a while, and Ajie told Ron that the informant, Khan, didn't have much time left.
The first time he was brought into the police station for shoplifting, Agee's men beat him up until he started vomiting blood.
Khan informed the police officers who resorted to violence against him that he was in the advanced stages of AIDS, and the officers immediately reported the situation to Ajay.
"My first reaction was to have them clean up the blood and disinfect the entire floor with Dettol."
Then Ajay had a conversation with Khan and persuaded him to become an informant for the police.
"Why would he agree? For the money?" Ron asked.
Aijie shook his head. "It's so I can come to the police station anytime."
"Just for this?" Ron asked puzzled.
"yes."
As an informant, Khan could drive to Ajay's office at any time.
"It made him feel powerful." Agee was also generous to his informant. "In the last six months of his life, I didn't mind letting him live a little more freely."
He gave Khan a phone card and his personal phone number, which Khan could call at any time.
"What about his crime? Will he continue to commit crimes in the future?" Mary couldn't help asking.
"I spared him once or twice." Ajie shook his head and smiled.
Khan was sentenced to six months and eight months in prison for his involvement in two other armed robberies, which was partly a cover-up to deceive the gang into thinking he was not a police informant.
Just now, Khan brought a useful piece of information: the wife of a gang leader with whom he had an affair accidentally revealed that her husband would come to her residence to see her tonight.
When Ajie introduced Ron and the others, he also made arrangements.
He picked up the phone at hand and called the person below.
"Is the motor tricycle we confiscated last time still there? Is it working properly?"
"Yes." The subordinate replied.
"Get ready, it'll come in handy tonight."
Ajay's plan was to have Khan disguise himself as a rickshaw driver and park his rickshaw in front of his mistress's house.
Aij's men would dress in plain clothes nearby, either pretending to be street vendors or passers-by.
Once the gang boss shows up, Khan will identify him to the police.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't come tonight. Khan said that the gang leader will go to church regularly, and then Ajie's men can ambush outside the church.
The leaders of these gangs are very cunning and the police usually have no idea where they are hiding.
But once he shows up, Ajay will move out quickly. After regaining power, his chance quota has increased significantly, enough to accommodate most of the gang bosses here in Mumbai.
"Once you catch that gangster, what will you do to him?" Karuna asked curiously.
It was his first time to be exposed to the inside story of crime and the first time to be so close to gang members. He felt both scared and excited.
Aggie looked at him, then at Ron and Mary, then turned his gaze back to Karuna, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
"Do I have any other choice?"
"Is it possible that Khan transmitted AIDS to the gang leader through his mistress?"
Karuna became excited as if he had heard a wonderful movie plot: an agent who slept with the wife of a gangster boss and indirectly infected the gangster boss with AIDS, killing people invisibly!
He used to be a Bollywood advertising film producer, so this kind of imagination comes easily to him.
"The incubation period of AIDS is too long, at least six years. Six years is enough for them to do too many bad things." Aijie immediately rejected this operation.
Next came the routine meeting time between Aijie and the police superintendents in the jurisdiction.
Those police inspectors were all local tyrants, cunning and fat-bellied. Aggie secretly called them "bandits".
At Ron's request, Aggie also let Mary, Karuna and others witness the interrogation at the police station.
Some of the suspects looked so polite that they made Kamali and Luna feel uneasy about their familiarity: if they had a little more money and a little more education, they would be just like us.
Aggie didn't avoid Ron and the others at all. The suspects were beaten with fists, belts and whips, falling like raindrops.
While being beaten, the suspect kept addressing his assailants at the police station as "sir", just like a student addresses his teacher at school or Karuna's assistant addresses him.
They never once cursed at the police who slapped them in the face.
Instead, it was Aij who used foul language and threatened them with “strict punishment if they resisted.”
But Ajie still restrained himself and did not really shock their lower parts, at least not when there were women present.
The suspect was dragged away by plainclothes officers, and they returned to their original office.
Ron had seen this kind of scene before and was about to laugh at Mary for being scared, but then he suddenly remembered her background.
Well, it’s hard to say who scares whom.
Karuna, on the other hand, seemed extremely shocked. The sounds of fists and belts hitting his flesh made him tremble uncontrollably, but he still kept his eyes wide open and did not look away.
We are all respectable people and have never seen such a scene before.
"It's nothing," said Ajie. "It's child's play."
"It's not serious yet," said Ron knowingly. "They'll be taken somewhere else."
Ai Jie smiled slightly and said, "Go and have a good 'vacation'."
Just recently, Johnny told Ron about a gang member from the New Union who was abused in the police station.
The police stripped the man naked, forced him face down on a bench in the interrogation room, and tied his hands to the legs of the bench.
A police officer put on gloves and produced a small bottle of acidic solution comparable to bathroom drain cleaner, a single drop of which could corrode through skin.
Gloved hands pried the man's buttocks apart, they held him still, and poured an entire bottle of solution into his body.
A few months later, the gang member still excreted blood clots every time he went to the toilet.
"There's this world around us, and I know nothing about it," Karuna said belatedly. "I really want to turn a deaf ear to what's happening outside and just be safe and sound."
He suddenly realized that he had been living on the banks of a river that looked peaceful, but the river was bottomless. A five-minute walk from his home decorated with greenery was a turbulent undercurrent filled with pain, violence, and even murder.
After showing them the underground world of Mumbai, Ron asked Mary and Karuna to go back first and think about the TV station.
The following conversation is not suitable to be made public, nor is it suitable for more people to know.
"Do you know Kamal? People call him the finance minister of the Dawood gang."
"I know." Aijie nodded.
"Is he on your chance encounter list?"
"That guy wasn't involved in many violent crimes, but more in smuggling and money laundering. The Mumbai court would be more suitable for him."
"I see." Ron nodded.
"Is it the gunfight at the dock warehouse?" asked Aij.
"It has nothing to do with me, but I roughly know what happened. You should have received the intelligence about the whereabouts of those gang leaders. I know you need it very much." Ron patted his shoulder.
"You have informants in those gangs too?"
"I have a lot of sources," Ron smiled. "We must seize the opportunity and catch them all in one fell swoop. We should at least remove the 'Deputy' from the Deputy Inspector's name."
There are some things that everyone knows tacitly.
For Ajay, as long as the gang war in Mumbai can be suppressed, this matter is nothing.
As selfless as he is, he will also use extraordinary means when interrogating suspects.
(End of this chapter)
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