Nirupama

Nirupama-14

NIRUPAMA

(Some Secrets May Better Remain Secrets Forever)

'I cannot bear this', 'I want to pluck my eyes out' only these two sentences were the clues which the late girl Nirupama left in writing one on a wall and one in a book quite unintentionally and involuntarily to know about the reason for her committing suicide. Her father Ranganath, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka along with Nirupama's friend Sukanya pretty well understood that Nirupama did not want the said secret to be known to anyone else. But since her father Ranganath hell bent upon knowing about the said secret, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka ruthlessly investigated the matter only to unearth the said ghastly, shocking and astounding secret which the dead girl terribly wished to keep only with her in her grave forever.

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"I just want to see how your uncle's office is, so I have come." While relinquishing Menaka's grip around her, Sukanya said.

"It is very good that you came here now. We have been discussing an important matter now and your presence will be very much advantageous." Smaran said.

"Is that so?" Sukanya came and sat in the left side chair opposite Smaran while Menaka sitting in the right side chair. "I am very much curious to participate in this discussion, may I know what it is?"

Then Menaka explained to Sukanya what they were discussing and discussed till then and Sukanya nodded her head.

"You already expressed this at me on that day. She was not raped or gang-raped. Post mortem was conducted on her body and that proved it." Sukanya said thoughtfully.

As Menaka was trying to say something more Sukanya said even before "I remembered what you have said on that day. Rape or gang-rape cannot be detected after fifteen days or so in post mortem. Still in my opinion Nirupama was not subjected to something like that."

Then Menaka said to her what she has learnt from Nagesh. "I have no doubt that Nirupama came to your home on the same day. Considering the way she was before going into the house, she was quite alright till that moment. So whatever has taken place to make her that much has taken place only inside of that house on that day itself." Menaka said.

"You are absolutely right." Sukanya nodded her head.

"Not just that." Frowns gathered on the forehead of Menaka. "She had spent only half an our or so inside of that house. Nagesh saw her coming out of that house just in an half an hour in all different way. So whatever that much depressing happened to her has happened in that half an hour."

"So what that much depressing can happen just in half an hour?" Sukanya knitted her brows and looked into the face of Smaran.

"That is what needs to be found out." Smaran smiled and said. "Even before that we have to decide who were present in the house at that time. As per Ranganath's saying he was out of station for few days on some work just fifteen days or so before Nirupama's suicide. She he was not in the house at that time."

"Moreover...." Menaka said ".....if he was inside of that house then he surely would have known what happened and he need not request us to investigate into that."

"You are right." Smaran nodded his head.

"So inside of that house was her mother. Some argument with her mother about something which her mother did not like and depressed Nirupama to that much?" Menaka said.

"I just cannot guess anything that her mother did not like" Sukanya said with knitted brows.

"About some love affair. She loved someone and said the same thing to her mother and she did not like it."