Ahmedabad: In normal time, about a month before Navratri, a professional detective office will be flooded with calls from partners, in-laws, and parents who want supervision of their favorite suspects.
Before the pandemic, young men and women associated during Navratri followed, their activities were monitored, and their families and future partners told their existence and meeting.
However, this year the Garba circle shrinks with personal events due to Covid-19 pandemic and so do people’s income.
Therefore, the focus of local Sherlock has helped help company houses and politicians track rivals, and find missing people.
Not a professional detective did not have other revenue streams before.
But the Navratri period brought a significant business two to three years ago.
However, pandemic, cutting income, and digital proliferation has caused a paradigm shift in this professional detective method operating.
M M Khan, a professional detective based in Ahmedabad, said: “There are several questions and cases of family and individuals.” Khan added: “The reason is quite clear: people do not have backup income.
Instead, we have gotten a lot of requests to help find people missing.” Khan continued by saying: “The company’s house and private company owners also approached us with various cases.
They wanted profits Financial, they want to know what their rivals are.
“Information is a powerful tool, said Khan.
“Before the pandemic, we used to hire informants, especially during Navratri.
The situation has experienced a big shift now,” Khan added.
Professional detectives say that they also get more questions from politicians in the selection process.
The use of widespread social media disrupts reconnaissance too.
“With social media, people themselves follow their suspects online, keep tabs close to who they interact,” said a professional detective based in the city.
“It’s easy to track the movement based on people’s posts and therefore professional detective services are less in demand.” Nayan Trivedi, a detective based in the city, said that this year he got around 50 requests from the family, especially Nris.
“Many of them approach us for their partner’s background check,” Trivedi said.
“Some married and leave the country want to keep an eye on their partners trapped here because of a pandemic.” He added: “But the request has dropped dramatically.
I used to attend at least 100 cases before the pandemic.”