{ "schemaVersion": 2, "meta": { "id": "case-003", "caseNumber": 3, "title": "Thirty Milliamps", "subtitle": "A sangeet, a locked board, and five people lying about the night the lights held.", "difficulty": "hard", "parSeconds": 1800, "setting": "Kesar Bhawan, a heritage haveli hotel, off Amer Road, north of the walled city, Jaipur — Thursday 19 November 2026 — the", "contentWarnings": [ "Electrocution", "Grief" ], "authoredBy": "generated", "cover": { "src": "assets/cover.webp", "alt": "Kesar Bhawan at night: the lit haveli frontage and marquee glow on the terrace, the old wing dark above.", "caption": "Kesar Bhawan, off Amer Road, Jaipur." } }, "suspects": [ { "id": "s1", "name": "Raghu Nathawat", "age": 58, "role": "General manager, Kesar Bhawan", "relation": "Host manager for the wedding; dealt with the planner daily for three months.", "portrait": { "src": "assets/s1.webp", "alt": "Identification photograph of Raghu Nathawat, 58." } }, { "id": "s2", "name": "Feroz Qureshi", "age": 51, "role": "Proprietor, Noor Light House, Jaipur — wedding lighting contractors since 1962", "relation": "A vendor she had struck off her circuit; hired for this wedding directly by the family, over her objection.", "portrait": { "src": "assets/s2.webp", "alt": "Identification photograph of Feroz Qureshi, 51." } }, { "id": "s3", "name": "Tanvi Bakshi", "age": 29, "role": "Associate planner, Khurana Events", "relation": "Her associate of six years; ran the run-sheet the victim wrote.", "portrait": { "src": "assets/s3.webp", "alt": "Identification photograph of Tanvi Bakshi, 29." } }, { "id": "s4", "name": "Suraj Pratap Rathore", "age": 61, "role": "Father of the groom", "relation": "Client; contracted her firm for his son's wedding.", "portrait": { "src": "assets/s4.webp", "alt": "Identification photograph of Suraj Pratap Rathore, 61." } }, { "id": "s5", "name": "Gopal Saini", "age": 34, "role": "House electrician, Kesar Bhawan", "relation": "None beyond the event; the house's man on the mains.", "portrait": { "src": "assets/s5.webp", "alt": "Identification photograph of Gopal Saini, 34." } } ], "documents": [ { "id": "brief", "type": "prose", "title": "Case Summary — FIR 0412 of 2026", "source": "Amer Police Station, Jaipur — API M. L. Meena", "date": "21 November 2026", "body": "**Meera Khurana**, 44, of Delhi, proprietor of Khurana Events and planner of the Rathore–Malhotra wedding, was found collapsed on the photo-point stair of the old wing at **Kesar Bhawan**, a heritage haveli hotel off Amer Road, at 23:05 on Thursday 19 November — the sangeet night of a three-day wedding. She was found by her associate and the wedding photographer, who had climbed to prepare the point for the next morning. Resuscitation was attempted; she was declared dead at SMS Hospital at 23:58.\n\nKhurana had run the wedding to her own master run-sheet, and by its timings had gone up alone at a quarter past ten to walk the photo point before releasing it — her stated practice at every venue. The stair was roped off by the lighting contractor and the old wing has been closed to guests since the monsoon.\n\nThe pathologist places death between **22:00 and 23:00**. Five persons connected with the wedding were on or about the premises: the hotel's general manager, the lighting contractor, the deceased's associate planner, the groom's father, and the house electrician. Their accounts of the evening do not agree.\n\nOn Friday morning the electrical inspector opened the contractor's locked distribution board. The earth-leakage breaker inside was bridged by a single crimped copper jumper. The lock was undamaged. The breaker, tested afterwards, was in perfect order.", "exhibits": [ { "src": "assets/victim.webp", "alt": "Meera Khurana, 44, mid-instruction at a venue with her clipboard — composed, imperious, photographed for a society magazine.", "caption": "The deceased. Photograph supplied by the family." } ] }, { "id": "roster", "type": "roster", "title": "Persons Present — Kesar Bhawan, Night of 19 November", "source": "Amer Police Station, Jaipur", "date": "21 November 2026", "body": "**Raghu Nathawat, 58** — General manager, Kesar Bhawan. Host manager for the wedding; dealt with the deceased daily for three months. States the house wiring was certified in September and that he was at the porte-cochère when the alarm was raised.\n\n**Feroz Qureshi, 51** — Proprietor, Noor Light House, wedding lighting contractors since 1962. A vendor the deceased had struck off her circuit; engaged for this wedding directly by the family. States his breaker was in circuit all evening.\n\n**Tanvi Bakshi, 29** — Associate planner, Khurana Events. The deceased's associate of six years. States she never left the sangeet marquee until the alarm.\n\n**Suraj Pratap Rathore, 61** — Father of the groom; client of the deceased's firm. States he did not leave the sangeet from the first guest to the last dance.\n\n**Gopal Saini, 34** — House electrician, Kesar Bhawan. The house's man on the mains and generator. States he walked his ten o'clock round of the old wing and marked the register." }, { "id": "scene", "type": "scene", "title": "Scene of Crime Report — Kesar Bhawan, Old Wing", "source": "Scene of Crime Unit, Jaipur City Police — PSI D. Choudhary, with Er. P. C. Verma, Electrical Inspectorate", "date": "20 November 2026, 08:40 to 13:15", "body": "The **photo-point stair** rises from the main terrace to the old wing's upper terrace: fourteen stone steps with a **brass balustrade** on the open side, its handrail cast with a beaded moulding. Guests reach the stair only through the old wing's corridor door, which carries **key-card controller B**; vendors reach the same terrace by the open **service stair** on the scaffold side, which has no reader and no camera. The old wing has been closed to guests since the monsoon.\n\nA **floodlight** of the wedding rig is clamped to the balustrade's upper rail; at the clamp, the lamp's cable shows a **perished rubber sleeve** with conductor exposed against the bracket. The **washing channel** from the mehndi station crosses the stone at the stair's foot, and the stone was wet through the evening. The contractor's **rope** was found still hooked across the stair's second step.\n\nThe deceased was found on the fourth step, her run-sheet beneath her. There is no sign of any other person on the stair and no disturbance.\n\nAt the foot of the service stair stands the contractor's rented **distribution board**, padlocked. The **padlock is undamaged**; its single key was produced from the contractor's own ring. Opened by the electrical inspector on Friday at 10:30 in the contractor's presence, the board's 30mA earth-leakage breaker was found **bridged by a crimped copper jumper** across its line terminals — clean trade work, crimped with commercial lugs. The rig, energised from 19:55, ran all night without interruption.\n\nThe photographer's drone case, brought up at 23:05, stood unopened at the stair's foot.", "image": { "src": "assets/floor-plan.webp", "alt": "Terrace plan, Kesar Bhawan. The sangeet marquee stands on the main terrace. The old wing rises one level, its corridor door fitted with key-card controller B — the only guest route to the photo-point stair and upper terrace. The vendors' open service stair climbs the scaffold side to the same terrace, with no reader and no camera; the contractor's padlocked distribution board stands at its foot. The porte-cochère and rear gate cameras keep true time.", "caption": "Terrace level, with the old wing and both stairs." }, "footnote": "The photo-point stair lies past the card door for anyone coming from the guest side; the service stair reaches the same terrace unrecorded. The washing channel kept the stair's foot wet from the mehndi onward.", "exhibits": [ { "src": "assets/scene-01.webp", "alt": "The photo-point stair: the rope hooked across the second step, the floodlight clamped to the brass rail, its cable sleeve perished at the bracket (inset), the stone wet at the foot.", "caption": "Photo-point stair, old wing. 20 November, 08:55." }, { "src": "assets/scene-02.webp", "alt": "Inside the opened distribution board: a crimped copper jumper bridged across the 30mA breaker's terminals — clean trade work, brighter than everything around it.", "caption": "The board, opened 20 November, 10:30, contractor present." }, { "src": "assets/scene-03.webp", "alt": "The contractor's board at the foot of the open service stair, its single padlock intact — the unrecorded route to the terrace rising beside it.", "caption": "Service stair and board, as found. The padlock's key: the contractor's ring." } ] }, { "id": "forensics", "type": "prose", "title": "Post-mortem and Laboratory Findings — M. Khurana", "source": "Dept. of Forensic Medicine, SMS Medical College, Jaipur — Dr. A. Bhatnagar", "date": "21 November 2026", "body": "The deceased was a female aged 44 years. Cause of death was **electrocution**. An entry mark crosses the right palm and fingers in a **linear beaded pattern matching the balustrade's cast moulding**; the exit wound is on the left sole. The findings are consistent with hand-to-feet passage of mains current through the trunk, arresting the heart. The marks are those of a sustained grip on a fixed conductor, not of momentary or battery contact.\n\nThere are no other injuries. The stomach was near-empty — the household reports the deceased observed the mehndi-day fast — and blood alcohol was nil. Coronary vessels were healthy. Death is placed between **22:00 and 23:00** on 19 November.\n\nThe rented distribution board was received with its breaker and the recovered **copper jumper** as Articles 2 and 3. With the jumper removed, the earth-leakage breaker was bench-tested: it disconnects at **30 milliamperes in 28 milliseconds**, within its rating — the device is in perfect order. With the jumper in place, the breaker is electrically absent: fault current from the old-wing circuit's damaged lamp cable passed to the balustrade without interruption for as long as the rig was energised.\n\nThe jumper is machine-crimped with commercial lugs; reference samples for comparison were taken from stocks at the contractor's yard and from the house store.", "footnote": "A 30mA residual-current device disconnects several times faster than a heart can be arrested. Against a bridged device, the first warning is the grip itself: at these currents the hand's flexors clamp involuntarily onto the conductor.", "exhibits": [ { "src": "assets/lab-01.webp", "alt": "Articles 2 and 3 on the bench: the 30mA breaker, in perfect order, and beside it the crimped copper jumper that took it out of the circuit.", "caption": "Articles 2 and 3, as received. FSL Jaipur." }, { "src": "assets/lab-02.webp", "alt": "Article 3 in macro: the jumper's crimped lug, die marks sharp on the barrel — machine work, not a bodge.", "caption": "Article 3, crimp detail." } ] }, { "id": "statement_a", "type": "statement", "title": "Statement — Raghu Nathawat", "source": "Recorded at Amer PS, 21 November, 10:15", "speaker": "s1", "preamble": "The house has held weddings since my grandfather kept its books as munshi. Nothing of this kind has ever — you will forgive me; I am told not to finish sentences like that. Ask what you must.", "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "The changeover at 19:40 took under a minute; the house never went dark." }, { "id": "c2", "text": "I was receiving the bride's party at the porte-cochère when the alarm was raised." }, { "id": "c3", "text": "The house wiring was surveyed and certified this September; the certificate is on our file." }, { "id": "c4", "text": "The old wing has been closed to guests since the monsoon; only staff and vendors go up." }, { "id": "c5", "text": "Khurana ji held the master run-sheet; nothing on that terrace moved outside her timings." } ] }, { "id": "statement_b", "type": "statement", "title": "Statement — Feroz Qureshi", "source": "Recorded at Amer PS, 21 November, 12:30", "speaker": "s2", "preamble": "Noor has lit this city's weddings since 1962 — my grandfather strung the first lights at Kesar Bhawan for thirty rupees. Eleven men eat from my board. Ask anything; I have answered inspectors all my life.", "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "The Rathores came to Noor directly, as their family has for three generations; madam had no hand in hiring us." }, { "id": "c2", "text": "After Wednesday's trips we took the board to my yard on Thursday morning and re-terminated the joints ourselves." }, { "id": "c3", "text": "I re-struck the rig at five to eight, after the changeover, and the sangeet ran without one flicker." }, { "id": "c4", "text": "I roped the photo-point stair myself at nine o'clock; the decor there was not complete." }, { "id": "c5", "text": "My breaker was in circuit all evening — a Noor board trips before a man can even feel it." } ] }, { "id": "statement_c", "type": "statement", "title": "Statement — Tanvi Bakshi", "source": "Recorded at Amer PS, 21 November, 15:00", "speaker": "s3", "preamble": "Madam wrote the sheet; I ran it. Six years. If I stop saying cue numbers I will have to think about the stair, so please let me keep the cue numbers.", "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "Madam walked every space alone before releasing it; 22:15 was the photo point, and it was on the sheet." }, { "id": "c2", "text": "From ten o'clock until they called me I never left the sangeet marquee; I never went up to the terrace wing." }, { "id": "c3", "text": "At 23:05 I went up with the photographer to prep the point for Friday, and we found her." }, { "id": "c4", "text": "I called 108 at 23:11 and did compressions until the crew took over." }, { "id": "c5", "text": "The rope was still hooked when we reached the stair; we stepped over it, the way madam must have." } ] }, { "id": "statement_d", "type": "statement", "title": "Statement — Suraj Pratap Rathore", "source": "Recorded at Amer PS, 21 November, 17:10", "speaker": "s4", "preamble": "My son marries tomorrow, whatever the papers print, and a house in mourning can still owe a wedding to its guests. My late wife would have said it better than I can.", "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "From the first guest to the last dance I did not leave the sangeet; ask anyone who was received." }, { "id": "c2", "text": "Whatever has been printed, I never once raised my voice to Khurana ji." }, { "id": "c3", "text": "My late wife chose this haveli for Arjun years ago; that is the only reason we are here." }, { "id": "c4", "text": "I know nothing of wiring; I could not tell one box on that wall from another." }, { "id": "c5", "text": "It was I who insisted on Noor Light House; their lamps lit my own wedding in 1989." } ] }, { "id": "statement_e", "type": "statement", "title": "Statement — Gopal Saini", "source": "Recorded at Amer PS, 21 November, 18:40", "speaker": "s5", "preamble": "I keep the house side: mains, genset, pumps. The vendor side is the vendor's. That is how every hotel in this city runs, whatever anyone is saying now.", "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "text": "I signed the changeover at 19:40; we ran on generator till ten to seven in the morning." }, { "id": "c2", "text": "The vendor's panel is the vendor's; my duty ends at the house mains." }, { "id": "c3", "text": "The old-wing sockets were isolated from the house board since Wednesday; from our side that wing was dead." }, { "id": "c4", "text": "I did my ten o'clock round of the old wing and marked the register; every floor, every landing." }, { "id": "c5", "text": "The round register is in my hand, every row this month." } ] }, { "id": "comms_log", "type": "table", "title": "Call Detail Records — Extract", "source": "Requisitioned under s.91 CrPC; compiled at Amer PS", "date": "18 to 19 November 2026", "columns": [ "Date", "Time", "From", "To", "Type", "Detail" ], "rows": [ [ "Wed 18/11", "20:41", "080 4361 1180 (unregistered)", "M. Khurana", "Call", "2 min" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "18:54", "M. Khurana", "F. Qureshi", "SMS", "\"List circulates Monday. Your name is not on it. Last chance.\"" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "19:02", "F. Qureshi", "M. Khurana", "Call", "4 min" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "20:15", "M. Khurana", "T. Bakshi", "SMS", "\"Marquee cue sheet to bandmaster now.\"" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "21:52", "S. P. Rathore", "Sethi Finances", "Call", "7 min" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "22:24", "Coordinator (bride side)", "M. Khurana", "Call", "Unanswered" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "22:31", "Coordinator (bride side)", "M. Khurana", "Call", "Unanswered" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "22:40", "Sethi Finances", "S. P. Rathore", "Call", "2 min" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "23:11", "T. Bakshi", "108", "Call", "3 min" ] ], "footnote": "Records requisitioned for the deceased's mobile and the principals' numbers. Message content is available for the deceased's handset only. The 080 number is an unregistered fixed line." }, { "id": "access_log", "type": "table", "title": "Access Control and CCTV Review — Consolidated", "source": "Viewing report, Amer PS; two card controllers, two gate cameras, house log", "date": "19 to 20 November 2026", "columns": [ "Date", "Time", "Point", "Event" ], "rows": [ [ "Thu 19/11", "09:44", "SERVICE GATE", "Noor Tempo out; \"board — repair\" per vehicle register" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "14:05", "SERVICE GATE", "Florist van in; unloading" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "15:12", "SERVICE GATE", "Band bus in" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "16:10", "SERVICE GATE", "Noor Tempo in; board carried to the service stair" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "18:50", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "Guest arrivals begin" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "19:40", "HOUSE LOG", "Generator changeover; signed SAINI" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "21:12", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "Mehndi party departs" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "21:38", "REAR GATE", "SAINI out, scooter" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "21:47", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "RATHORE S P out, on foot" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "22:31", "OLD WING DOOR (B)", "Card: BAKSHI T" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "22:36", "OLD WING DOOR (B)", "Card: KHURANA M" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "23:02", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "RATHORE S P in" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "23:04", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "Late guests; NATHAWAT receiving" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "23:12", "REAR GATE", "SAINI in, scooter" ], [ "Thu 19/11", "23:16", "PORTE-COCHÈRE", "Ambulance 108 in" ], [ "Fri 20/11", "07:05", "OLD WING DOOR (B)", "Controller reset; clock corrected" ] ], "footnote": "Controller B lost mains at 19:40; on generator its clock ran 17 minutes fast until reset at 07:05 Friday. Its times above are as printed. Controller A and both gate cameras kept true time. After 21:00 only cards KHURANA M and BAKSHI T entered the old wing; the vendors' service stair has no reader.", "exhibits": [ { "src": "assets/access-01.webp", "alt": "Controller B on the old-wing door — the only guest route to the stair, and the clock that ran seventeen minutes fast.", "caption": "CTRL B, old-wing corridor door." } ] }, { "id": "records", "type": "table", "title": "Seized Records — Exhibits Register", "source": "Seizure memos, Kesar Bhawan and Khurana Events site office; Amer PS", "date": "20 November 2026", "columns": [ "Ref", "Date", "Item", "Note" ], "rows": [ [ "R-1", "19/11/26", "Master run-sheet, Thursday, the deceased's hand", "\"22:15 — MK walkthrough — photo point. Release 22:30.\"" ], [ "R-2", "17/11/26", "Noor Light House work order and rental inventory", "One 63A distribution board, 30mA RCCB, \"tested OK\", delivered Tuesday" ], [ "R-3", "18/11/26", "Snag sheet, rig test — foreman R. Ansari", "\"RCCB trips ×3, old wing. Insulation fault. DO NOT ENERGISE until re-megger.\"" ], [ "R-4", "—", "Advances ledger, from the deceased's suite", "Noor struck through: \"refused — circulate after Rathore wedding\"" ], [ "R-5", "03/2024", "House electrical certificate, hotel file", "Dated March 2024; main wing only" ], [ "R-6", "19/11/26", "Service-gate vehicle register", "Noor Tempo out 09:44, in 16:10; \"board — repair\"" ], [ "R-7", "19/11/26", "House electrician's round register", "22:00 old-wing round ticked and initialled" ], [ "R-8", "—", "Draft services agreement, TB Events LLP / Rathore family", "Unsigned; recovered from the associate's room" ], [ "R-9", "—", "Draft payment schedule, Sethi Finances", "Recovered from guest suite 4" ], [ "R-10", "17/11/26", "Florist's challan", "40,000 marigold strings" ] ], "body": "**R-1.** The sheet is typed; the 22:15 line is added in the deceased's ink, as on every venue sheet her office holds. Her walkthroughs were solitary by rule.\n\n**R-3.** The snag sheet is countersigned by the proprietor of the firm. The circuit was left isolated on Wednesday night.\n\n**R-4.** The ledger runs two per cent columns across nineteen vendors and two seasons. Three names are struck through in total; the other two closed their accounts before striking.\n\n**R-6.** The Tempo's 09:44–16:10 journey is the board's only excursion off the property in the wedding week.", "footnote": "The board's one journey off the property falls between the snag sheet's instruction and the sangeet's rig.", "exhibits": [ { "src": "assets/records-r1.webp", "alt": "Exhibit R-1: the typed run-sheet with one line added in the deceased's ink — 22:15, MK walkthrough, photo point. Release 22:30.", "caption": "Exhibit R-1, recovered from the stair." }, { "src": "assets/records-r3.webp", "alt": "Exhibit R-3: the Wednesday snag sheet — DO NOT ENERGISE underlined in block capitals, initialled R.A. and countersigned F.Q.", "caption": "Exhibit R-3, exhibits register." }, { "src": "assets/records-r4.webp", "alt": "Exhibit R-4: the advances ledger open at the struck-through name — NOOR, one firm line through it, and 'refused — circulate' in the deceased's hand.", "caption": "Exhibit R-4, from the deceased's suite." } ] } ], "options": { "method": [ { "id": "me1", "text": "Electrocution by the haveli's decayed old-wing wiring — deferred maintenance, an accident, and no crime" }, { "id": "me2", "text": "A fall on the dark, roped-off stair, the electrical marks left by the fallen floodlight afterwards" }, { "id": "me3", "text": "Electrocution through the stair's brass balustrade, after the rig's earth-leakage breaker was bridged out of the circuit" }, { "id": "me4", "text": "Contact with the house mains during the 19:40 generator changeover" }, { "id": "me5", "text": "Cardiac arrest brought on by the mehndi fast and a sixteen-hour working day" }, { "id": "me6", "text": "A shock from the photographer's drone batteries staged at the photo point" } ], "motive": [ { "id": "mo1", "text": "To stop Monday's empanelment list, which would finish his firm for refusing her cut" }, { "id": "mo2", "text": "To recover the advances ledger naming every vendor who paid her two per cent" }, { "id": "mo3", "text": "To bury the falsified electrical certificate before she reported the house" }, { "id": "mo4", "text": "Revenge for the four weddings she cut him from last season" }, { "id": "mo5", "text": "A rival planner clearing the market before the next season's signings" }, { "id": "mo6", "text": "A creditor collecting in kind on the wedding's unpaid bills" } ] }, "reconstruction": { "beats": [ { "time": "17:30", "text": "Wednesday. The rig test on the old wing. Three times the breaker tripped, doing exactly what it was built for; the foreman wrote the snag sheet — insulation fault, do not energise until re-megger — and the proprietor countersigned it. The circuit was left dead.", "evidence": "records", "provenBy": { "kind": "citation", "part": "how" } }, { "time": "11:05", "text": "Thursday morning, at the Noor yard. Twenty minutes at a bench his grandfather built: a copper jumper, machine-crimped, across the breaker's terminals. The board came back at 16:10 and went up under his own padlock.", "evidence": "records", "provenBy": { "kind": "lie", "suspect": "s2" } }, { "time": "18:54", "text": "Her message reached him while the marquee was still being dressed: the list circulates Monday, and Noor is not on it. He called her back for four minutes. Whatever he offered, the ledger already said refused.", "evidence": "comms_log", "provenBy": { "kind": "citation", "part": "why" } }, { "time": "19:55", "text": "After the changeover the rig was re-struck and the old-wing floodlights came up on wiring last certified in March 2024, main wing only. The fault put current on the brass rail. Nothing tripped, and nothing would. On the old-wing door, controller B had begun running seventeen minutes fast.", "evidence": "records", "provenBy": { "kind": "lie", "suspect": "s1" } }, { "time": "21:38", "text": "The house electrician's scooter slipped out the rear gate toward a cash wedding in Sindhi Camp. The ten o'clock round of the old wing exists only as a tick in his register.", "evidence": "access_log", "provenBy": { "kind": "lie", "suspect": "s5" } }, { "time": "21:47", "text": "The groom's father walked out of his son's sangeet to a moneylender's office, his late wife's jewellery in his case. The calls at 21:52 and 22:40 bracket the meeting he will not name.", "evidence": "access_log", "provenBy": { "kind": "lie", "suspect": "s4" } }, { "time": "22:14", "text": "The associate badged into the terrace wing — the drifting controller printed 22:31 — and climbed past the roped stair to the groom's suite, carrying the unsigned contract of a firm of her own. She was back among the cues by twenty-five past.", "evidence": "access_log", "provenBy": { "kind": "lie", "suspect": "s3" } }, { "time": "22:19", "text": "Meera Khurana badged the old-wing door — printed 22:36 — stepped over her own vendor's rope with the run-sheet in her hand, and took the brass rail on the wet stone. The device built to let go in twenty-eight milliseconds was no longer in the circuit. The lights never flickered all night.", "evidence": "forensics" } ], "closingLine": { "suspect": "s2", "text": "My breaker was in circuit all evening — a Noor board trips before a man can even feel it." } }, "coldThread": { "label": "An unregistered Bangalore landline — 080 4361 1180", "glyph": "🧵" }, "answerKey": { "sealed": true, "salt": "89d4deafb7750b2e9e70214ae25b8895", "who": { "answer": "8835751a11449ba7f5457e6e71da768ba7effc542227f2458d22a7960a87f785", "acceptedCitations": [ "826321191bb5a16a881985379e14a63c756af1736dfe64f0d8868c5e1a30e5c3", "09d0d8a9dcd904a2354f6fe382cc160e3f3cce4a3053e53e4a6f914dbf0c27e9" ] }, "how": { "answer": "acc49c9deb2d68f69947ba4fb1e66efa4db7e2721a1260601810e5972ebc6a22", "acceptedCitations": [ "c6b077cc0e5b17c02b743993d84abe3cee7f10dde1465b3c84cfda887d4c7773", "09d0d8a9dcd904a2354f6fe382cc160e3f3cce4a3053e53e4a6f914dbf0c27e9" ] }, "why": { "answer": "10f711c920f494b265b18522496b8adee2f5988175a0b5bbb9c410a19243092a", "acceptedCitations": [ "7057522669535e92676ace157d2446e0b13fa24cd1a01d4d52cd20430df6cc6f", "09d0d8a9dcd904a2354f6fe382cc160e3f3cce4a3053e53e4a6f914dbf0c27e9" ] }, "lies": [ { "suspect": "s1", "claim": "4278a53cae73001e9ec679244629e6a71bcdcad880a4bcce8f4a4810163cbf21", "disprovedBy": [ "09d0d8a9dcd904a2354f6fe382cc160e3f3cce4a3053e53e4a6f914dbf0c27e9" ], "reveal": "The certificate on file is from March 2024 and covers the main wing only. He had deferred the old-wing rewiring for two seasons to keep the calendar full — the fault on that railing was the fault he kept postponing." }, { "suspect": "s2", "claim": "3f92b3aa6197a12175f9445ac87066e82e78d9643444409b585c78fc9b2b7f0a", "disprovedBy": [ "826321191bb5a16a881985379e14a63c756af1736dfe64f0d8868c5e1a30e5c3", "09d0d8a9dcd904a2354f6fe382cc160e3f3cce4a3053e53e4a6f914dbf0c27e9" ], "reveal": "He was never near the stair; his alibi is real. The murder happened at his yard bench on Thursday morning — a crimped jumper across a breaker that had spent Wednesday refusing to let the railing kill. He roped the stair himself, knowing her sheet said 22:15." }, { "suspect": "s3", "claim": "4595f631f723ce6d3670c9c099cc3016dcd6649b623f30bbff205a51cd703e72", "disprovedBy": [ "69ad4f2f000978fd08391c22fd8877a542dd503de4e68f15531105a797c0cb89" ], "reveal": "The badge corrects to 22:14, before the window. She was in the groom's suite with the unsigned papers of TB Events LLP — leaving her employer mid-wedding, not killing her." }, { "suspect": "s4", "claim": "e4b4ecdf788593fe7666a093cdf9053872b08c87e519d01f39b134137b833b16", "disprovedBy": [ "69ad4f2f000978fd08391c22fd8877a542dd503de4e68f15531105a797c0cb89", "7057522669535e92676ace157d2446e0b13fa24cd1a01d4d52cd20430df6cc6f" ], "reveal": "He was at Sethi Finances, pledging his late wife's jewellery piece by piece so the last bills would clear and his son would never learn the family is broke. He came back in time to be seen, and said nothing." }, { "suspect": "s5", "claim": "54ef5042520b96cd43240ced854578bda820cd087784e9e4848b27696a511c05", "disprovedBy": [ "69ad4f2f000978fd08391c22fd8877a542dd503de4e68f15531105a797c0cb89" ], "reveal": "The scooter, the Sindhi Camp wedding, the cash. The ten o'clock round is a forged tick in his own careful hand — the register he was proudest of is the thing that catches him." } ], "coldThreadDoc": "7057522669535e92676ace157d2446e0b13fa24cd1a01d4d52cd20430df6cc6f" } }