A CLOSER LOOK

Neha was alone at her new home. Deepak and Neha, the newly married couple moved into their new home in Noida about 2 weeks ago. The house was perfect for Neha, she was still figuring out with the interiors and how to make her house into a beautiful home. She was shifting few items from the still unpacked boxes when her doorbell rang.

She looked through the peephole and then opened one of two doors, there were 2 men in their mid-20s who looked polite and were dressed neatly, and they wore some kind of a uniform. “Good afternoon mam” said a man who looked in charge, Neha simply nodded.

“Mam we are the service team, employed by the society, we are here to fix your A/C” said the in charge, showing his and his colleague’s id. Neha carefully looked and then called the security guard to reconfirm, and only after getting thoroughly satisfied, she opened the door. The men came in and right away went on with their job. They had all sort of tools through which they dismantled the new window A/C. Neha called Deepak and told him about the service guys. Deepak asked Neha to be careful. Neha knew, so she kept the front door open and stayed at the drawing room while the men were working in the bed room.

After every 10-15 minutes Neha went on to check the men who were deeply involved in their work. Neha thought the job was taking little more than usual time. thus she enquired about the same to the in charge, who assured Neha that the job will be over by next 5-10 mins. 

Neha waited in the drawing room when one of the guys called her out to check the functioning of her A/C. Neha checked and once she found everything was ok she signed few papers.

 The guys politely said thank you and before they went out of the house the in charge told Neha that they will be coming back after one week to make sure the functioning is still good, Neha agreed. Neha felt a sigh of relief as things were falling into places in her new home. She went to check the A/C again, it was working perfectly fine. She called Deepak and updated him, meanwhile she noticed a small hole on the front panel of A/C, initially she thought this might the design feature but her instinct told her something was not right, so as she went near the panel and looked closer, her eyes widened, a sweat broke on her forehead, she could not believe what she just saw. There was camera of miniscule size hidden deep inside the panel, which would be unnoticed under normal circumstances.

She checked her door was locked and no one was standing at the door. She sat down and thought for a while and came up with an idea. She remembered how her friend once told her about Pehechano. An app which stores the data of all the employees such as drivers, security guards etc. from their previous employers. She immediately downloaded Pehechano and called the security guard to enquire the names of service technicians, she noted it down and searched their name on Pehechano. To her horror one of the names popped up and had a bad history of eve teasing and harassment case.

She immediately informed her husband and police personnel. And after investigation it was found that both the technicians hid the cameras in A/C and after week took it out and sold the contents in the  market. They were doing it for the last 6-7 months. Not only Neha saved many people’s lives but she also became an active member on Pehechano, now continuously updating the track record of the people on the Pehechano App.