THE CANVAS

part-4

"What ", max stood their for a moment in disbelief.

"Yes mam, when you look closely at that canvas you will understand everything"
After a while zia struggle to keep up with john's speed.
Max could not believe what zia was saying and walked with them.

    In front of the canvas was a long line of forensic and photographers. The leg of zia and john sir came and stood at a certain distance from the canvas. But max walked towards it as if by some impulse. That scene may have been one of the cruelest and most horrific in her police career. Leaning the canvas  against a tree in such an open space, that canvas was something that could swallow her police life green.
         A girl in full nude is pasted on a canvas.  The whole background of the canvas was painted red and of the picture looked like poppy flowers. It looked like paint but it smelled of hot blood. The girls lips were stitched together. The poppy wreath pasted on both  corners of the canvas stretched all the way of her abdomen. Her abdomen was cut and sewn. What  made a girl a girl was that they had all been cut off. The artery in her neck had been cut exactly where the blood clots had dried. And variety of wounds small and large on various part of her body.
For such a brutal murder she stood for a  moment as if in another world..

"max, "john sir called.

max looked up at the sound is if shucked by some magical world.
 
" Haven't you seen such a  brutal murder? When the first saw we all thought it was canvas painting anyway we  need to get this over with  such as possible."

By then sagar sir and his assistant jiya from the forensics department had come their. Sagar was above by the experience with john.but sagar call john only sir.
   "Tell sagar any important evidents" john asked as he moved closer to sagar.
"Never sir the killer done this  desperately with out even a finger print, I have never seen sucha brutal murder in all my years "
sagar said wiping  the spectacle from his face.

"Any rape attempt,"
max asked take her eyes from  the canvas for a long time.

"We have no in our primary investigation. Need you more information we want to take this on our lab. "

"Ok sagar you can take this with in ten minutes". John said.

After the conversation sagar and jiya walked towards the canvas.

"Max what do you think? " John asked.

"It must have become one who studied medicine after seeing all the wounds especially in that stitching and the cutting of artery. And what do mean by spider?"max asked  

"Spider !why this here right now,? "zia asked.

Max noticed the same question shadowing john's face.

"Did you not saw the words engraved on the bottom border of the canvas 'iam a spider '. "

Max saw the eyes of zia and john's moving to the canvas. But when he saw it, john suddenly change his expression. He throw the next question without paying much attention to it.
"Why did this happen and what was the motive to do so brutally? "John express his confusion by this question. 

"Sir i think it may have done some psychopath. "

"Phycho path? " john asked skeptically.

"Yes sir "max said it very simply.

"what does that mean john could not control his wonder."

"Because to kill a girl  he can use rope or knife. But if he wants to be killed so brutally he will have an unquenchable fire in his mind no matter how much rain falls. The motive of such people is sometimes a little anger towards someone,   sometimes they have no motive. "

"Wait wait "john intervered before she could finished."why are you Saying things like this for some reasons is just divert the case? "

When she heard this she became very angry and said nothing more.

"Max we have to settled this case very soon "

"Sir if this is a phychopath killing it's a litte weird sir." 

"Hy don't you  yet come out of that stage.
If we Even not proved  a murder like  this what the different between ordinary person and a police man "
John says angrily.
I don't know how you will solve this but the next thing i want to hear in that the killer has been caught.
You under stands?
  Ziya will assists you in this case. And i will arrange two more police men and the killer must be caught immediately. You know the pressure already in this case "

John put his hat on his head.
zia and max salute john.
John put his glasses on his face and gets into his car. Driver Antony flew the   leaves and drove the car fast.

"What you think zia",?  max asked looking ziya' s face.

"Mam why not it did by killers? "

"Zia can we use many other ways to bring a canvas." Max said with a slight laugh.
"Did recognized the girl?  Max asked.

"Yes mam a second year student in a arts college who were missing five days ago means 15th on this month. The family didn't know where she had gone. Then questioned her  friends they say in 14 th day  night they went for a movie she was with them. After the movie they taken her home. "

"Is her parents saw the body?"

"no mam we thought show up after the autopsy."

Max's phone rang suddenly interrupting ziya's speech after taking the phone out of his pocket she cut the call. But the next call came before she could put the phone in her pocket.max picked up the phone .

"max where are you "?
a woman's voice came from the other side.
"I want to came for a urgent case "

"Why not you call me?"the girl asked.  

"Because you are sleeping so i didn't call you, Are you calling for to know this then i will cut the call. " max said.

"Oh no.. stop tell me when you will come"

"Come before 11'o clock "

"Then come quickly,  i hate you 100 times "
the woman on the other  said with a laugh.
"same to you heli "
max's little smile spread on her lips.

After looking at ziya for a moment max cut the call.

"Is that aneeta mam? "Ziya asked.

"Yes "max said with a slight look of seriousness on her face.
"Zia toom the all details of the case and then  called the boy's friend and relatives for an inquiry at 2 pm, no one should be left out. "

"Mam they are all questioned by the local police, and then.... "

"They sometimes seem to fell us more than they told the local police. Call them, and we need two more police mens.
All right, then call the person who saw it first.
Let me see that canvas again. "

Max's foot steps made a noise in the leaves and he walked towards the canvas.