ashes Bear Witness

ASHES BEAR WITNESS by giving him liquor laced with poison. Thus, she lodged a case with the police. The only way the police could investigate the case was to get hold of ashok’s ashes and examine them. The day Chameli devi lodged her case with the police, a party of policemen arrived at the crematorium where ashok’s body had been cremated. as luck would have it, no other corpse had been burned on the same platform after ashok’s body, and so the police were able to gather some of his ashes. They sent these to the Central Forensic science laboratory for investigation. six months later, the laboratory issued a report, certifying that ashok had not died a natural death; but had been poisoned. soon after this, suresh, whom Chameli devi had suspected of murdering her son, was arrested. in a report about this case, a daily newspaper commented: “dead men tell no tales, but their ashes may.” People commit crimes and seek to hide the records of their deeds, thinking that they can wipe away the evidence of their actions. They do wrong and, imagining that they are very clever and powerful, try to conceal their actions, believing that no one will ever come to know about them. however, they forget that they do not live in a world of their own making, and that God has made this world. God has made this world so that it gets affixed to the ‘cosmic record’ as soon as a deed is done, and no one can ever rub it off.