Chapter 1
Once upon a time there was a boy named Raj. He was in sixth standard. During the summer vacation he went to his village. His mother went to Bengaluru for surgery, and that day his aunt Siya came to their house in the village. She mistreated him a lot and followed him everywhere. She made him do housework and often beat him for even small mistakes.
One day Raj’s father came home. Raj told him everything. His father beat Aunt Siya severely and locked her in a room. From that day she did not speak his name again. Raj then went to Balasinor, Gujarat.
One day his uncle (Siya’s husband) came home drunk. Raj’s father beat his uncle, but his uncle did not understand and drank again. Raj’s father and mother decided to take his uncle’s family to Bengaluru. After a few days in Bengaluru, Aunt Siya noticed that Raj’s father would go to the shop at ten and return at eleven, and that Raj’s mother was on complete bed rest. Siya saw this as an opportunity to harass Raj again. This time her daughter helped her. They beat Raj, forced him to do housework, and did not allow him to meet his mother. They made him massage his aunt’s legs and hands, forced him to do homework, and hit him for every spelling mistake. They did not allow him to go to school.
One day Raj decided to tell his father, but his father made a joke of it and did not take him seriously. His father thought, “I beat her so much before; she can’t beat him again.” Raj became very angry and decided to run away from home. He spent fourteen days planning what to do and where to go. One night he went into his father’s room, took fifty thousand rupees, and at 4:00 a.m. he left the house with his clothes and ran to the railway station. That night he slept at the station. The next day he went to the railway station office to find a job. After a short time the station master told him to mop and clean the floors every day, and his salary was six thousand rupees per month.
After a few years, Raj’s parents came to the railway station. When Raj saw them he tried to run away, but his father chased and caught him. His father demanded the fifty thousand rupees and Raj gave him all the money. His father threw him to one side and started counting the money, which made Raj feel that he was not important—only the money mattered to his father. Raj became furious. His mother asked his father to take Raj home, and his father agreed.
That night Raj decided to kill his parents and the relatives who lived in their house. He attacked and killed those relatives, and he specially targeted his aunt. He then took all the money belonging to his parents and relatives and ran away from the house, never to return.
