"Please do find who killed him. He may not have been the best person, but he was still my husband," Anita said with tears in her eyes when the whole ETF was leaving. Arjun nodded to her and all went away, but then remembering something, he came back with the girl's picture.
He had decided to call Mrs Anita for interrogation later, the lady seemed genuinely shocked, but he still didn't have a lead on the girl's corpse. Pushing his sympathy aside, he showed the girl's picture to Anita and waited for her to identify the girl.
Anita looked at the picture, and for one second, Arjun saw something in her eyes, but it was quickly hid. Anita raised her eyes and said, "Nahin, I don't know her at all!"
"Theek hein, we'll be calling you for other questions if any," Arjun said, wore his glasses and went away.
Once outside, he asked Shree to dig everything on Raj, his call records and bank statement. And asked Aisha and Chotu to find out as much information on Raj from his friends and colleagues.
"We'll surely get some lead for this girl! She couldn't have come from Mars for god's sake!" Arjun.
A few hours later, in the conference room
They were all discussing on what they had found out, when Arjun walked in and asked for the status.
"Sir, Raj was nothing but a womanizer. All his friends knew he married Anita only for money. He had never been faithful to her at all. It seemed he adored having a string of girls in his arm. We haven't found anything about this girl yet, because apparently he had lots of girlfriends at the same time. Some he showed off, while some he kept secret!" Aisha said.
"And what about his work? Did he have any enemies?" Arjun asked.
"Well yep, everyone hated his guts and arrogance. And they were also jealous of his success and money! From the way the people we interrogated replied, i sincerely doubt anyone even liked him!" Chotu added.
"So it could be a crime out of jealousy? Either Anita got bored of his infidelities or his opponents got angry?" Sakshi asked.
Arjun was pondering on this, when Shree ran inside.
"Sir, we have found out who the girl is! Her name is Reha, she's a student studying the University of Mumbai. She stays in a hostel," Shree said.
"Let's go and check at her address!" Arjun said.
At Reha's Hostel
Aisha and Sakshi were searching the room, while Arjun and the rest were interrogating Reha's friends and her room partners. But they all knew Reha was with someone, but none knew who the secret lover was.
Sakshi finally found Reha's diary and took it to Arjun. Arjun asked her to read the last entry on it.
"Dear Diary,
Aaj mein kitni khush hoon. Finally he agreed. Now no one can ever separate us anymore. Waise what should I wear for this perfect outing? Oh god I can't control my happiness anymore, I feel like flying...
Hmmm jo maine chaha, mujhe mila... oh god, who's knocking on my door now... Abhi aayi, I have more to share with you..."
"That was her last entry Arjun, some four days ago," Sakshi said.
Arjun nodded and gathering all clues, they all returned to the ETF office.
Back in the conference room
Sakshi was reading the diary from start to find any clues, while the others were discussing about the case. Suddenly Shree stopped everyone's talks by, "Guys, Raj's mobile has been switched on!"
"After almost three days, someone has switched on his mobile? Can you locate where It is?" Arjun said.
"Yes Sir," and after a few minutes, "It's coming from Raj's house himself!" and looked with confusion at everyone.
"What? Raj ka mobile is at his house?" Aisha, "But how can this be?!"
"That is something we can best find by going there!" Arjun said.
At Anita's house
Arjun knocked on the door and waited for someone to open. He was surprised to see Anita herself opening the door. But what were more shocking were her clothes, she was dressed in a black party dress, and seemed to be on her way out, when the ETF had knocked.
Anita saw the disgust in everyone's eyes, but she ignored them, and asked, "Kahiye ACP, kya kar sakti hoon apke liye!"
"Here's the search warrant for your whole house. We sincerely hope you'll collaborate with us!" Arjun snapped at Anita.
"Search warrant? For my house? Are you crazy? Who the hell do you think I am?!" Anita said angrily, refusing them access in her house.
"I don't give a damn who you are, don't try to impede in our interrogations!" Arjun said angrily.
"Hatiye," Aisha said pushing Anita aside, and all got in.
"Aisha and Sakshi, search upstairs! While we'll search downstairs!" Arjun ordered ignoring Anita's cursing words.
After sometime, no one had even found anything. "I did say, there is nothing in here!" Anita was shouting at them.
Ignoring her, Arjun turned towards Shree, "Are you sure Raj's mobile is still here?"
Shree checked his laptop, and said, "Yes it's still here!"
"But where?!" Arjun asked.
"Shree call on his number!" Arjun said, and all hoped that the mobile wasn't in silent mode. But unfortunately they didn't hear anything. Shree cut the call.
"I'll make you pay for this insult!" Anita was seething with anger.
"Let's check outside!" Arjun said after some time, "Maybe it was never inside the house!"
All went outside and started to check, when suddenly in the backyard, Arjun noticed a patch of weeds which seemed to have been lifted and placed there. He went closer, and bent down. He pulled on the weeds, and his guess wasn't wrong, there was a plastic bag which had been buried there. He digged further and pulled out the plastic bag completely. He opened it and checked inside.
Anita was looking very worried at this turn of events, she waited till she saw Arjun pulled out Raj's necklace with the "OM" pendant and Raj's mobile, and some ropes. She stared incredulously at these things and uttered, "I don't know anything about this!"
Arjun put back the things in the plastic bag, he'd make Liza analyze everything back in the office, and stared coldly at Anita.
"Aisha, arrest her!" he said.
Aisha pulled Anita away, and all the time Anita was pleading her innocence.
They all watched Aisha taking Anita away, and when Anita was out of sight, Sakshi dared say, "It seems stupid nah! Why would she kill her husband, keep all the evidence against her, and on top bury it in her own backward... and that too by letting Raj's mobile on!"
"Kuch to choot raha hein!" Arjun said. It was, like Sakshi pointed out, too easy and everything seemed to point towards Anita.
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