The Lines of Fate

19: A new lead!

"Have this on the way back." Mrs. Gayatri Ghosh, the sweet grandmother handed Radhika a packet of homemade cake before leaving.

"There was no need dida," Radhika took the packet from her hand feeling guilty for making her work for them. "You already made us dinner and let us sleep last night in your house."

"No...no it's fine. I would do anything for Keshav and his friends." She said looking at Keshav who was trying to take out his car from the narrow street he parked on yesterday with great difficulty.

"He was such a good guy. Always concerned about everyone in the locality. Happily playing with the kids, showing them magic tricks. God knows why his life changed like this?" She let out a deep sigh. "It would have been better if I had gone to his house that day."

"What?" Radhika asked making Mrs. Ghosh take a step back. It was clear on her face that the last words slipped by mistake. "Dida...please tell me if you know something. Don't keep it hidden. It would help in finding the culprit."

Mrs. Ghosh shook her head moving back. She was afraid of something.

"Dida...don't be afraid. Please tell me if you know anything." Keshav said coming and holding her hands. While coming back he heard what Radhika said and seeing Mrs. Ghosh's face he sensed something was wrong.

"Beta, don't get angry with me...I was afraid so couldn't say anything to the police." Mrs. Ghosh trembled as she spoke. "That day it started raining in the morning. I ran out to pick up the clothes given for drying when I saw someone standing outside the fence of your house."

Radhika and Keshav shared a look before he asked, "Did you see his face or something else?

"It was a woman...not a man."

"A woman??" Radhika asked being astounded. Then is the killer a woman??

"I had never seen her before. She was wearing a dark brown colored raincoat, looking at Keshav's house. I wish I had given much more attention to it...then we hadn't had to see this day...."

"No dida...this is not your fault. No one would have thought so much at that time." Keshav said trying to calm down her. After waiting for a bit Radhika and Keshav left the place.

There was a new lead in the case. The day before yesterday Keshav gave the ring he found, to Mr. Das for a search so they would have also got some information by then. Radhika couldn't wait for any more to be back and start investigating more.

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"He doesn't know that right? That we are here." Radhika said trying to control her laughter seeing Vaarsh from the other side of the glass pane of the interrogation room. Vaarsh was on the other side trying different dialects of how to carry out the interrogation.

"Do you think he would do like that if he knew?" Ansh brought a fist to his mouth failing miserably at holding in his laughter.

At his laughter, Mr. Das said, "I had never seen such weird poses before..."

Vaarsh is so going to get embarrassed about this later. They were all waiting for Ishaan's parents to come in for the interrogation. After getting fresh at home Radhika came to the station and told her team about her new lead.

She also found that Keshav's DNA matched the blood stains on two knives ending the suspicion of her team on him. Another one was her father's. There was no news about the ring and they didn't find anything suspicious in Mrs. Langston.

"He is too much tensed to interrogate the people he knew almost throughout his childhood." Ansh crossed his hands looking at him.

"It's under stable. Is Dhruv not joining him?" Radhika asked. Her reply came a second after when Dhruv entered the room along with the Sens. She saw an expression of disgust on her mother's face. It was very easy to figure out that she hated the place every second.

From when did her mother change so much? Or she was like that from first only and Radhika never understood that.

The interrogation lasted for half an hour, after which they went to meet Ishaan. Radhika heard Mr. Sen also applied for bail but Mr. Das said it would be better to keep him under their eyes only. What if he returns to a violent state?? What if he gets hurt?