I relaly appreciate all the feedback I have gotten from everyone. It encourages me to keep writing. Here is part 3 of the story...with more shocking revelations. Hope you enjoy it!
At midnight Abhijeet, Daya and Muskaan went to Athena night club to find the man who Payal used to meet there. As soon as he saw them, one of the bartenders pointed out a man sitting at the bar. He was sitting alone and drinking a beer. Muskaan went and sat right next to him and smiled at him. In a few minutes, he had ordered a drink for Muskaan and began to talk to her. As soon as he mentioned that his name was Amit, Daya and Abhijeet came and surrounded him
When they showed him Payal's picture and told them that they are from CID, he became nervous. Immediately he began saying that he did not kill Payal. They asked him what his relationship was with Payal, and he said that Payal was his girlfriend, but he also had similar relations with several other girls. Abhijeet asked him whether he had promised Payal that he would marry her. Amit said definitely not. He was already married, and Payal knew this. The three of them thanked Amit for his cooperation and told him to come to their office the next morning. He agreed, but just to be safe, they decided to send an officer to his house to watch his movements.
The next day, when they arrived at the office, Doctor Naila was waiting for them. She had found out that the poision that had killed Payal & Mansi was produced at Mehta Industries, the same place where Payal used to work. They supplied it to only two other companies, who used it on animals for research purposes. Doctor Naila had called Mehta Industries and discovered that four days earlier, three bottles of the poison had disappeared from their inventory. This information suggested that the killer was an employee at Mehta Industries and had stolen the poison from there. ACP was thinking about this when Amit came into the office. ACP sent Daya and Fredricks to talk to Mehta Ji about this and stayed behind with Abhijeet to ask Amit some questions.
Daya asked Mehta Ji for the names of all the people who had the access to the room where the bottles of poison were kept. Mehta Ji called all those people into his office. Fredricks tried to ask them questions and figure out who stole the poison. They all claimed that they had not gone into the room the day the poison was stolen, and they began to support each other's claims as well. Mehta Ji told Daya that there was a girl who also had access to the room, but she had taken the day off so she was not currently in the office. Daya asked for her name and address. Mehta Ji said her name was Shalini Sinha and wrote her address down for him. One of the employees said that he had seen Shalini near the door of the inventory room the day the poison was stolen, but he was not sure whether or not she had entered the room.
While they were leaving the building, Daya noticed a picture and stopped in his tracks. On the wall it said "Employee of the Month" and there was a picture of a girl. Under it was the name Shalini Sinha. Fredricks asked Daya what happened, and Daya continued to look at the picture intently. Very thin, very fair, and blue eyes – exactly like the girl that Rahul had described. Was this the same girl who had resevered a hotel room in Payal's name?
In the car, Daya and Fredricks were discussing the possibility of Shalini being involed in this case. They were almost at the office when ACP called them and told them to come to Taj Hotel. When they arrived, ACP told them that a girl named Julie had been invited for a job interview at the hotel by a man named Anand Kapoor. When Julie arrived and Anand was introducing himself to her, Qureshi Sahib overheard him. He recognize the name as one that the CID had been asking about, and immediately informed ACP. Daya and Fredricks entered the hotel lobby and saw that a tall man wearing glasses was in handcuffs and Abhijeet was asking him questions.
Anand was crying and saying that he was not a murderer. He told them that a girl had given him money to do this job. His task was only to get Payal and Julie to the hotel, talk to them for a while, and use some excuse to take them to that girl's room. He had no idea what happened after that. Abhijeet asked him what the girl's name was. Anand said that he did not know her name, but she was a very thin, fair girl with blue eyes. Daya was shocked. Was it really Shalini Sinha who was behind all this?
Concluding part coming soon…