Radha, a hippie, with her best friend, roomie, cousin sister, overall subhi, legally blonde, had just returned back from near by bar.
Subhi had just lost her virginity with her boss, sanjay, a charming, chivalrous man every girl would dream of, with whom subhi was in love!!!
Offcourse Radha needed some or other reason to drink and dance!!!
and it was weekend!!
Radha and subhi together entered there apparment's lobby around 2. They lived at 8th floor. Leaning over each other, they were struggling to get through lobby towards lifts. Reaching till lift door, subhi noticed lift wasn't working since the lift button was cutoff using axe.
With anxiety, subhi turned towards staircase half way carrying drunk radha and shouted loudly "radha.......!!!!!!"
radha got all her consciousness back and turned towards subhi to ask what happened.
subhi said, "look there is someone there, oh my god! that lady oh god!! she is being attacked!!! oh god oh god blood"
little further she stepped and noticing she said, "its himani, the 7th floor pretty bengali girl. call police radha please."
Himani, 21, bengali girl, beautiful eyes, long hair, dark complexion made her look more attractive. She had lost her mother to cancer when ahe was child. Her father was rich business man, had his chains of hotels. He had just married to young women, pooja, himani's step mother, with whom he thought he can spend his life till eternity. Himani didn't choose to live with her father and step mother. so her father managed to get her, her own flat as per her wish.
Radha came forward and lean over the body saying, "you think this is the body ha, I don't see anything here. you drank too much just come along lets go to room, there is no one here"
subhi being naive, was easily manipulated. laughing at herself subhi mumbled, "really you don't see anything. God!!! whats wrong with me, its effect of DEXTER! I should stop watching that serial, but its bloody good! but why did i thought of himani!!!!"
radha candidly replied, "you got lesbian crush on this bengali! "
both bursts in laughter.
radha dragged subhi through stairs...
but subhi turned again to give glance of doubt, but radha was just pulling her away!!!!
Somebody knocked at the door.
radha's conscious mind heard it. she just looked at watch and it was 10 past 30 minutes. with messy hair and pyjamas she opened door.
"Hello madam, its mumbai police, we are here for investigation of homicide happened in your apartment last midnight, name, himani mandal"
subhi stood by her sister in shock.
radha, "yes sir, how can we help you!"
police, "we have witness who is saying that you were the last one to check into the apartment, it was vikas bhal who saw you both, through his gallery but there was no further evidence about the fact, since your security personal was fired a week before, so we came to ask you the details"
before radha could say anything subhi came forwarded and said, "yes sir we were. sir we were too drunk yesterday and I saw the body but I thought I am imagining things and even radha couldn't see the body so sir I thought it was just imagination. we didn't kill himani trust me sir. I liked that girl sir" she started snobbing heavily.
radha in disguised consoled subhi and turned towards police
"yes sir we may be the last one but she was lying there before we came. we had no idea. and we were too drunk from the party so I didn't think about that much. sorry for inconvenience."
shocked police, "madam how can you say something like that. It was some person who got murdered last night right in front of you and you didn't even try to contact us. That killer is out there roaming freely who took life of a teenager whose dad is been dying of an heart attack after hearing the news, whose step mother is begging us to find the culprit since very morning and you say sorry for inconvenience. your negligence may have taken the life of the girl. do you understand what I am saying."
radha has poker face and subhi started crying more hard.
police said, "we are sorry, but we need you both to take to police station for further investigation."
shocked subhi approached police ans said, "sorry sir, but please don't tell my parents about this!!!"
disguised police nodded off and asked them to be in police van in 20 min.
wearing jeans and normal t shirt with messy bun radha was all ready and downstairs. subhi with typical punjabi dress covering her face with dupata as if she did that crime.
radha gave subhi weird look and said, "what you thought media people were waiting for you, you moron!!"
subhi said, "you moron, its all because of you, had you listen to me last night we wouldn't be sitting in police van like a culprit!"
at police station, interrogation room number 2, radha was sitting and subhi was out in main porch.
"hello mam, myself ganesh bobade, crime investigator, mumbai police"
"hello sir, myself radha pawar, unemployed, at mumbai police!!!!"
ganesh, "I like your sense of humour and I get it. what else you can entertain us with!!!"
radha, "I appreciate your keen attention. see me and my sister had done no wrong. there was nothing we could do. himani was already dead and I guess she was dead around 10'o' clock. We were the first who saw her there."
ganesh, " I am sorry. Your sister said you didn't saw himani. And now you saying she was already dead and mentioning the exact murder time!!!! How strange is that"
radha, "sir, I was fooling around my sister so I said I don't see body. and she was dead because there was no respiratory movement of her for 15 minutes. I did check that and I could tell the time because the watch at the crime scene, you must have found out, showned timing of 10'o'clock something and must have stopped working after the hard blow in it, because there was crack on the glass of watch!!!"
astonished ganesh tried to make up a question for radha, but radha continued "and I know who killed himani and I guess I know why!"
ganesh now got out of his seat and said, "mam, can we know that killer and offcourse the reason" giving her sarcastic smile
radha, "sure why not, its himani's step mom who killed her!!!
but she wanted to show police that it was himani's father who did that, as you can see that broken watch was of himani's father. but there was ring too on the crime scene and that belongs to himani's step mother"
ganesh wanted to say something but radha continued, "no himani never wore any rings, there were no tan marks on her fingers!!! though I saw one tan mark on himani's step mother's finger which must be missing a ring, I saw when I was coming from apartment to police station. she was standing with crowd there, you can check out."
ganesh by now had lost his tempered and banging his hand on table he shouted, "stop the fucking lie, and tell the real story, why did you kill himani!!"
radha with patience look said, " why should I kill himani and what would I get from that!!"
ganesh, "exactly my question! !! how much you got for killing himani and who said you to do so!!"
radha, "I am telling you, trust me, I had no connection with any one who wanted to kill himani. I told you she was killed by her step mother. I guess there was something about property. let me speak sir. I had solved this case yesterday night.
I stay at 8th floor and himani at 7th our balconies concides diagonally. I heard himali talking on phone, I was having my tea there, she was talking with her father,
she said "thank you dad this means alot to me. I am so eager to meet you. Please don't tell your wife. she would go mad over your decision. ya I am thinking of shifting to that property of yours as soon as possible."
We have seen her father regularly for many months and I had seen that watch on his hand, he was always accompanied with his wife and they have been meeting himani. last week it was her 18th birthday and we all were invited. I saw there was some tension between himani and her step mom."
ganesh, "you think I trust you. okay let me trust you for few minutes. but tell me one thing radha why didn't you call police at night when you solved this case why so prolong!!!"
radha, "I was the one who called police and informed. you can check the details"
at the same time, some one entered the room "yes sir, we got confirmation about the call, radha mam was the first one who called police"
with radha's face saying 'SEE I TOLD YOU', ganesh stood silently, impressed with observations of radha, but didn't wanted to loose battle ganesh further said, "you have lot of theories, you must be having one on how himani was murdered!!!"
radha, "thank you for asking I appreciate your courtesy. I saw the lift button was axed down. and the emergency axe was missing, so the obvious and the fire extinguishers miss placed and yes our apartment don't have cctv cameras since we did had security officals 24 hours till last week. Himani and her step mother must be together when they entered the apartment. Himani's step mother wanted her old fragile man to get framed in this so she used his watch. They must have argued over some property issue when himani must have said something offensive, couldn't take the insult her step mom must have slapped her hard and for escape himani ran inside the lobby and must have pressed lift button and but her mom in few seconds must have axed the button down. she started beating her step daughter I guess she even punched her really hard, in no time she grabbed the fire extinguishers and just smashed it in himani's face, and there was on the spot death of himani. she then dropped off the watch of her husband which she was wearing and then the fire extinguisher on it. Thus suggesting presence of himani's father and struggle between them. But in hurry she even dropped her ring. I guess you will even get more evidence if you looked further. I couldn't see further since, my drunk body was not supporting my brain."
ganesh was speechless he was actually impressed with radha's conclusion.
but he said, " why couldn't anybody hear himani shouting for help? ?"
radha, "sir the lift was broken due to defaulting lifts button with an axe, between transaction, somebody had kept the fan button ON inside lift, the noise of fan further increased as there was default in its electric circuit which created much noise which crackled all through lobby area and thus the cry for help couldn't be heard by anyone"
they released radha and subhi and were freed from all acquisitions.
later police found out himani's step mother was planning to elope with her young boyfriend with all the money she would been granted after himani's death and her fathers acquisition but failed in that attempt.
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