“But sir, my audit—”

One monsoon evening, the bank manager, Mr. Khurana, called him into his cabin. Khurana was a man who wore gold chains and smelled of whiskey even at 10 AM.

He walked into the bank, took the file, and messed it up. Not by refusing—but by over-correcting.

The police inspector questioned him. “Tripathi ji, your anonymous tip mentioned a ‘cash shortage.’ That led us to Chaturvedi’s logs. We found a 2 crore fraud, not 50,000. How did you know?”