Part
15
Khalia
requests crowd gathered in front of his door to wait for a while so
that his friends will come and explain something very quivering truth
connected with what has happened. Though he knew they will not
believe the story at first hand. This assurance confuses them all.
They begin to whisper amongst themselves about what it means? How can
his friend know why Khalia shot a knife on his wife while she was at
the entrance door? However, they decided to wait until his friends
arrive. Police officers also decide to have patience since Khalia was
one of them and a very senior level office in the police department.
In the meanwhile Khalia's mother-in-law comes to see what has
happened. She collects her grand daughter to her heart and ask her
what is the matter so that her father killed her mother. The girl
refuses to accept that her father killed her mother. She repeatedly
reaffirms to her grandmother that even she does not know why dad
killed her mom. Their conversation was going on right in front of the
crowd of police men. But then why he did it? Everybody was wondering
and as that type of thinking began to gain ground some of them
realized that something unusual is definitely behind that happening.
Grandmother tells Khalia that she would take her grand daughter with
her to their house since police action will definitely take away
Khalia into the prison for further inquiry. Khalia mutely accepts the
suggestion but keep silent. He had as yet not recovered from the
shock of what had happened. Some neighboring women begin to come on
the scene and give their condolences to Khalia and his daughter. The
scene was very pathetic. Some of them were good friends of his wife
and so they could not control, began to cry aloud that made the scene
all the more pitiful.
Khalia
was occasionally looking around to see if he could have a glance of
Hemant in that crowd. He was sure that this ghost of Hemant was
somewhere around and watching what is happening. But he could not see
him anywhere. He repeatedly calls his friends to find out why they
are not coming. The calls were not answered as the friends were busy
preparing to come to his house.
Finally
they come to his house. Sarang was not in a position to talk to
anybody; he was more depressed than Khalia even though it was Khalia
who was under attack of their prime enemy, Hemant. Bali and James
looked to Khalia with inquisitiveness they did not ask any question
to him knowing fully well that Khalia wanted to hit Hemant but since
he is not a person the shot hit wife and she died. Now crowd and in
that particularly police inspector Patel comes forward and asks
Khalia, "Can I start my interrogation with your friends?"
he nods affirmatively.
Mr.
Patel begins to ask first Bali about what is the matter. Bali tells
him that whatever he shall tell will be true and requests them to
believe what he shall speak without doubts. He further tells them
that the thing that he will divulge is most bizarre and under normal
conditions nobody will accept it but it is the only truth with
regards to this unfortunate death of their friends dear wife.
"Never
mind, go ahead and tell that bizarre truth". Inspector Patel was
grinning when he said "bizarre". That really disturbed
them, the friends of Khalia and himself, but they had no choice and
kept silent. Bali began to tell them but he could not understand from
what point shall he begin to tell the story of Hemant. He cannot tell
that they have killed him! That could be very dangerous for all of
them and so she became silent for a while. This his silence irritates
inspector but he does not show it on his face. Looking to his other
colleagues he finally begins to tell about Hemant. Bali first tells
him that Hemant was their college friend and he hated them because
they were better than him in all respects. When Bali begins to talk
like this, a complete untruth, Sarang becomes very upset. He could
not control himself and begins to shiver and then falls down. This
disturbance created confusion in the crowd, they could not understand
why Sarang a noted advocate in the city has become unconscious. This
disruption brings commotion in that crowd and they begin to feel that
the matter must be really very interesting. They begin to send
messages to their friends and call them to attend the interrogation.
This makes the crowd swell gradually. In the meanwhile inspector
Marshal orders his police officer to call for ambulance to collect
the body and take it for postmortem.
Story
continues in the next post,
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