Shabhana's POV

"Hello Raghu, socha nehi tha maine ithni jaldi fir se hamari mulaqaat hogi (Hello Raghu, I didn't think we will meet again so soon)"

I said we said as we sat in Raghu's home he was released after it was proved that he was threatened into killing his wife Zoya.

"Shabhana ji aap akeli hai jo mujse milne aathe hai, kush ho jaatha hai aapko dekhne (Shabhana ji you are the only one who comes to see me, I get happy when I see you)" Raghu said with a smile.

"Arey main bhi toh aatha hoo (Hey even I come)" Sahil said.

"Ji haan Sahil sir, waise shaadi mubarak ho aapko, actually main aap logon se milne aane wala tha Thank you bolna tha Zoya ka kaathil ko pakada aapne (Oh yes Sahil sir, congratulations on your wedding by the way, actually I was coming to meet you, I had to thank you for finding Zoya's murderers)"

"Actually usi ki baarein main baat karne aaye the hum log, tumne apne statement main kaha tha ki tumhara aur Zoya ka koi nehi tha lekin Zoya ki behan se mile hum log kuch din pehele? (Actually we came to talk about it, you said in your statement that you and Zoya had no one but we met Zoya's sister a few days back)" Sahil said.

"Zaira? Main kabhi mila nehi usse par Zoya uski bare main aksar baat karthi thi, unn dono ka ladayi ho gayi thi kuch saal pehele aur dono ne aapas main baat karna hi band kar diya tha Isiliye maine kaha tha statement main ki hum dono ka koi nehi tha (Zaira? I have never met her but Zoya used to talk about her they had a fight few years back and stopped talking to each other after that, that's why I said in my statement that both of us had no one)"

"Aapke Naveen ke kya rista tha? Because aapke wife ki case ka ek criminal ki hisab se aapne unki help kiya tha ek crime scene clean up karne main, ek ladki thi Sara uska rape hua tha (What was your relationship with Naveen? Because according to a criminal of the case of your wife, you helped him clean up a crime scene of this girl Sara, she was raped)" I asked.

"Naveen ke liye maine bohot illegal kaam kiye hai, lekin yeh crime scene wakera woh hum se clean up nehi karwathe kabhi unka apna team hai jisme zyaadadar ladkiya hi hai (I have done many illegal works for Naveen but they don't make us clean-up crime scenes they have their own team for that which includes of mostly women)"

"Kya? (What?)" Sahil said.

"Kyu? Ladkiyan crime scene clean-up nehi kar sakthti? (Why? Can't women clean up crime scenes?)"

"Toda ajeeb hai bas (It's just a bit weird that's it)" Sahil said.

"Koon saaf karne main ladkiyon ka kisi bhi ladke se zyaada experience hothi hai (Women have more experience in cleaning blood than any man)" I said.

"Can't argue with that" Sahil said.

"Okay Raghu tum kya bol rahe the? (Okay Raghu what were you saying?)"

"Haan toh meri wife Zoya iss team ke liye kaam karthi thi, issi wajah se toh uski aur Zaira ki ladayi hui thi, lekin ek din usne who sab chodne ka faisala kar diya aur uski wajah se main bhi Naveen ke liye kaam karna band kar diya, sach bathao toh Zoya apne behan ke saat apne rishta teek karna caahthi thi lekin uske pehele hi.......(Ya so my wife Zoya used to work for this team but one day she decided to stop doing all that after which even I stopped working for Naveen, to be honest Zoya wanted to fix her relationship with her sister but before that.....)"

"Okay I think we have all the information we need, thanks for your corporation"

I said as I stood up and shook hands with him.

***

"Haan main jantha tha Naveen ko (Yes I knew Naveen)"

Rajat said, we had come to meet him again as we were interviewing people related to all of Julie and Kartik's victims again.

"Main pooch sakthi hoo kaise? (May I ask how?)" I asked.

"Meri wife Sitara ki through, woh dono family friends the, maine kuch cheezon ke liye unka help kiya tha lekin kuch illegal nehi lag raha tha aur iss rape case ke baarien main maine suna thak nehi hai madam, par unki kaam mujeh kuch teek nehi lag raha tha aise hi gut feeling ho raha tha ki kuch galat ho raha tha toh maine unki help karna band kar diya iss baat ko lekar (Through my wife Sitara, both of them were family friends, I did help him a couple of times but nothing seemed illegal with those and I have never even heard anything about a rape case, but something didn't feel right I had a bad gut feeling about the kind of work they did so I stopped helping him)" Rajat said.

"Sitara ke death ke baat Naveen ne kabhi tumeh contact kiya? (Did Naveen ever contact you after Sitara's death?)" I asked.

"No"

"Sitara ki ghar walon ki contact information mil saktha hai kya? (Can we get the contact information of Sitara's family?)" Sahil asked.

"Sure"

***

"I knew it, uski ghrawalon ne Naveen ka naam thak nehi suna kabhi (I knew it her family has never heard Naveen's name)" Sahil said.

"Toh iska mathlab yeh dono ladkiya Naveen ke liye kaam kar rahe the isse toh yahi laghta hai hai ki Julie aur Kartik ne jo unki dusmanon ki pyaar ko marne ki kahani sunayi thi sabb jhoot hai aur yeh dono unhi logon ko maar rahe the jinneh woh marna caahthe the aur agar aisa hai toh jaise humne socha tha yeh case usse zyaada bada hai (So that means these two women worked for Naveen from which it looks like the story Julie and Kartik told us about killing the loved ones of their enemies were complete bullshit they were killing the people they actually wanted to kill and if it's like that then this case is much bigger than what we imagined)"

I said rubbing my forehead in frustration.