Life as I have Seen It

Author(s): Urmila S Dholakia
Publisher: Urmila S Dholakia

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= Life - As I've seen it
happened and I promise you that i'll never do something like this again. Ben, all these years ! behaved honestly in my job at the hostel. But since this security officer has come along, all of us peons have been experiencing a lot of challenges. The officer is threatening that he could do anything to anyone at anytime. So, all of us are very afraid of him. The security officer with his gang makes us do these types of activities. But, no one is standing up to him out of fear of repercussion. Today, since you have promised me, I have faith you could report him to the university.
The peon, opened up and told me his story of how the leader of this incident was the security officer. Based on his planning, he had set up multiple gang members around the perimeter of the hostel and had sent one of the members in to the hostel to steal the necklace. The peon had been told to keep the door open and not lock it and at that time the peon was to remain in the bathroom. The security officer had said "My gang will quickly finish this job, no one will ever know. You have nothing to fear" if anything happens then take my name and you'll be off the hook, I'll take responsibility for that. This job will be done in about 10-15 mins, if you don't listen to me and don't do this, you'll lose your job and your family will fall on hard times. Ben, I was very scared so I agreed to go along with what he was asking me to do..
Based on his plan, if the girl hadn't gotten up
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