Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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bodyguards? Was there a lapse in security? Her residence was on Safdargunj Road in New Delhi. For security reasons, no vehicles were permitted to ply in that area to safeguard against terrorist attacks. Security guards were put on a weekly drill, to check their readiness at all times to save the Prime Minister, in case of an attack. They were trained to take the brunt of the attack, in order to save the Prime Minister. The guards who were trained to be quick, nimble and quick-witted in an emergency could not display their prowess when the time came. An ambulance used to be parked outside the Prime Minister's home round the clock. The day she was killed, the ambulance was still there but the driver and the keys to the ambulance were missing. She had to be driven to the hospital in an Ambassador car.
All the V.I.P.s are treated at New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Prime Minister's residence has a wireless communication service with the Hospital whereby the Hospital can be informed whenever any incident occurs.
There is an idiom in English, “Man proposes, God disposes”. A man may have intended something but God overturns that proposition. We disagree with this. God can never hurt us in any way. He, in fact, will improve the circumstances. We can certainly say, “Man proposes, Karmasatta disposes”. It is Karmasatta who topples a man's intentions.
A young man wanted to get married and settle down.
It is easier to take the punishment given by a king but difficult to
take the punishment meted out by one's own destiny.
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