calls from my mobile number to the mobile of his wife, when I allegedly asked her to meet me implying that she had met me in a restaurant. Ravindran further accused me of having said that she had herself given me the number.

I did not immediately realise what had happened, but did so subsequently. However, I will recount the background here, before I tell the rest of the story:

(Background:
One of my German associates (let’s call him MB) who was around 25 years of age, had used my mobile to make some calls about a week before S Ravindran came to my office. This was not the first time that MB had visited India. Six months earlier on his trip to India he had met a girl called Rehanacompany and expose me. They wanted to know the name of the person to whom I allegedly sold the stolen PDA and the amount that I received for the stolen PDA. He mentioned that the PDA is worth Rs.60000/-.

I asked them from where could I have stolen the PDA. They said that the PDA was on the car roof outside Mr. Mukesh’s house, which apparently was also in BTM layout! When Mr. Mukesh went to the garage for a short while, the PDA was stolen. Mr. Mukesh was very upset when I asked him where he was staying in BTM and asked me loudly to just shut up.

They sat down to lunch but I declined to eat anything, telling them that I had already eaten. They asked my