Chapter 8 · free to read
The ledgers had left the chowki in a jeep, spent one night in a corridor almirah, and arrived in court with the wrong string on them.
Nobody had stolen anything. That was the trick. You do not need to steal a document if you can make it untrustworthy.
Time. Place. Hand. Signature. Photograph. Hash. Six columns, and no document ever moved again without all six.
One page took eleven minutes to enter properly. There were nineteen thousand pages.
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