Noise is Good – A Murder Mystery (Part 8)

Pramesh becomes the prime suspect in Vageshwari’s mysterious death.

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Noise is Good – A Murder Mystery (Part 8)

What had happened was, when Jadhav had called up Pramesh, he had dillydallied about his return home by saying that he did not believe it was the police, who had called him. He had said, “You are connected to our neighbors. Pooja must have arranged this call.”

Jadhav was angry and had, then, made Pramesh’s teenage daughter speak to him. The girl said, crying, “Papa, they are right. Mom is dead.”

Pramesh began to cry over the phone and told Jadhav, who took up the call again, “We are an ideal couple and family in the building. My wife has been an inspiration to everybody. We have been rising in status every 4-5 days due to her. Pooja is jealous of us. And it is not possible for Vageshwari to have committed suicide!”

Jadhav was alerted by the word suicide. He had never mentioned this word to Pramesh. So, he told the man over the phone, “Pramesh, Pooja is responsible for your wife’s death. We just need your help to confirm that it was her. Come back, immediately.”
“I have a rail reservation of the day after tomorrow. I will cancel that and take a private cab to come by tomorrow afternoon or evening.”

Jadhav told him, “We have kept Pooja under observation. You have to come and help us prepare the case against her. So, hurry up.”

Block the world. Enter the mystery.

Nitya knew that Pramesh had not left the city. So, she told the police to spread the dragnet for the killer that night itself. By then, Nitya had convinced Jadhav that they would also help the police to catch the real killer. Jadhav had allowed Pooja to join them because she was the only one, among them, who could identify Pramesh. Nitya and the police had spread the word throughout the social media that Vageshwari was alive and that she would soon reveal the identity of the person, who had tried to kill her.
To convince Pramesh, they had his daughter call him again and tell him about it. She said,

“During postmortem, the doctors found that Mom was alive. They hospitalized her and brought her back when she insisted that she wanted to come home. Mom is very weak. She hasn’t told anything as yet about who tried to kill her.”

To be continued…

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