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The End Game (Part 3)

Previously in The End Game ( Part 1 & Part 2),

 Arjun singh has been sent to rehab for the murder of his wife under the influence of controlled substance.  A serial killer was on the loose and uptil then , a brothel owner and a journalist had been killed. In the flight to Zurich, where the minister Prakash Jadhav and his son, Rahul Jadhav were headed, a murder happens in a similar manner which created panic in the flight. Police Inspector  Deshpandey  who got the tip from the serial killer itself was on the flight too.  A ring was found near the dead  body of the bodyguard of the minister and the minister claimed that it belong to Shyam, the cousin of Ravi, who came to fill his place in his absence. But, Shyam was found innocent.  The killer has killed the lawyer, the minister and his son too. He surrendered himself and it was found that the master was someone else.

Two days later,

The door to the interrogation room opened with a creak and the killer came to senses. The sleep deprived eyes were demanding sleep but, all they got was a splash of cold water. The entire body of the killer shook and it was as if a dead body has suddenly came to life. Deshpandey asked, " Better? or want some more?". The killer just nodded negatively. The constable brought a cup of tea for both Despandey and the killer. Deshpandey asked the killer to drink it and tell the story. The killer asked about what he wanted to know, to which Deshpandey replied that he wanted to know everything. He replied," Start from the beginning, if any doubt will be there than I will ask." The killer started narrating.

' My name is Rishabh, and I am a graduate in Chemistry. I work in a company which make life saving drugs. In my family I had my parents and a younger sister. I didn't stay with my family because I had some issues with my father and so I choose to live alone. But I used to be in contact with  my sister and she used to tell me everything. It's the event which happened one and a half year ago. One day she was upset with some matter and so I asked her about it. She told that Rahul Jadhav, the minister's son was bothering her. He came to her college's function and was interested in her. She told no but, then also he didn't stop and was bothering her. I told her to be strong and if he disturbs her again, she should go to the police and complain. Then for few days, there was no contact with sister. I tried to call her, but the mobile was switched off. So I decided to personally visit her. On coming home, I found that my entire family has committed suicide. I was shocked as if I had seen a ghost. I knew my family would never do such a cowardly act and so I went to the police station. There I met ACP Arjun Singh.

I asked him about the matter and he told me that the postmortem report has clarified that it was a suicide as poison was found along with food in their body. I told him that my family can never do this and there  might be some other angle. He then told me about what happened in the days before their suicide. My sister was raped by the minister's son Rahul and so my sister went to the police and to the court. But in the court the case was cunningly turned towards my sister's character and my sister was proved to be slut. The minister has used his sources and created fake evidences to save his son. So because of this my family's reputation was affected and my parents cared for society very much and so that might be the reason for the suicide. This reason was given to me by the ACP. I also believed that it was possible, but I was filled with anger and I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill that Rahul Jadhav and his father. So I started making some plan. But few days later I got a call from ACP that I should leave the city and my life might be in danger. I told him that I wouldn't go without the revenge of my sister's rape. He told me to forget that for a while and save my life as revenge will only be taken if I was alive. I went to my city and started focusing on my job. Then I saw in the news that Arjun Singh has been convicted for the murder of his wife. For a second I didn't believed it because he looked like a good person to me. He was my last hope as he had promised me to help the case of my parents' suicide. As he was convicted, I lose hope for justice of my parents and became busy in my work."   

 Few days before I got a message on my phone from the private number. It was written ' Want Revenge for your family's death?'. I wrote,' They committed suicide, but I want revenge for my sister.' The reply came, ' That's what the police and the world knows, but in reality they were forcibly poisoned.' My body boiled with anger on reading that and I wrote,' How do you know that? Who are you? What do you want?' The reply came,' I have evidence and I am the person who can help to take revenge from your parents' killers. It's important what you want? If you want vengeance or not.' I replied ,' What I need to do?'. The reply came,' Follow my instructions and do as I say without any questions. You will get your revenge. I will contact you when time is right.'

From that day I did as per the message told me to do and I don't regret my decision to take  revenge.'
Deshpandey was engrossed in the story and so he wanted to know further. He told ," Tell me why did you killed so many people if your revenge was with the minister and his son. Also tell me how did you plan everything?"

The killer started, ' I was contacted by the unknown with some another private number and I was given all my targets . I was given the liberty of choosing my way of killing them, but condition was all should die in similar fashion, just like serial killings. As I am a chemical graduate, I once came towards a chemical during my research which when injected in body inflict excruciating pain even if you touch the person. So I choose that chemical and told the unknown about that. He agreed to this and gave me details of my first target and how to approach with it. It was the brothel owner. She was the one who proved my sister a slut. She gave a testimony to the police that my sister was selling her body for money and she used to find her clients. She destroyed my sister's  character. So I killed her. I went late at night and it was good that everyone was sleeping and so I was able to finish my work fast. Also my anger which was hidden inside for quite a long time came and I felt it when I was pressing her neck. It felt awkward for the first one, then I was well versed with it.

Next was the journalist, Suhasini. She was also guilty of destroying my sister's image in public. She showed the testimony of Sukmabai on national news and apart from that she also threw allegations on my sister that girls like my sister use beauty as a bait and the boys like minister's son are victims of such things. I can't imagine what my sister had gone through when she had seen such news. So I killed the journalist too as she and both Sukmabai both worked for the minister.'

Deshpandey asked," The apartment in which journalist used to stay, that apartment's watchman told that no one goes upstairs without writing the name in the register."

The killer replied," It's simple, Inspector. All you should know is to divert the attention. I went near the apartment and waited for a while till the watchman went  for the loo. As soon as he moved from his place, I entered the apartment. Also while leaving the building I left at a time when the the watchman was asleep. Apart from that  I had kept a watch on him for some days as to know when he sleeps. As simple as that."

Deshpandey told him to continue. The killer continued,' Then after that came the minister and his crew. The minister's account had been hacked which was in Zurich's bank. It was done by the unknown and then a fake call to the minister to lure him out. Also the private jet of Rahul was deliberately sent to maintenance. The unknown is a man of contact. All this made them book a flight and so my arrangement was also done, as a member of cabin crew.

I first saw the bodyguard Raju who was the one involved in killing of my parents. He went with the goons to my house and forcibly made my parents eat the food which had poison in it. The minister didn't want to have the impact of this case on his political campaign as it was the time of election and so in order to close the case ordered his goons to kill my family, but it should look like suicide. I saw him near the toilet and so I went behind him and killed him inside the toilet. I got the ring of Shyam and kept it near Raju's hand to misguide you in order to buy me time to kill the lawyer and the minister. Next was Chaturvedi, the lawyer. He was a very cunning person. The plan to move the case from the rape of my sister to rape of my sister's character was his only. He only made all the fake evidences . So I killed him too. Then came the minister and his son, I used the fresh face napkin and sprinkled  chloroform to it. I knew that with death of two of his men, they might be sweating with fear and so I gave them those napkins. Then as they lose their consciousness, I used my trolley to shift them to the cargo. I had a little chat with them unlike my other victims. I made them realize their sins and how bad deeds never stay buried . After that the rest, Inspector you know.'   

Deshpandey raised a doubt," How come your finger prints didn't match with the ones on the neck of the victims? Why did you started giving me clues after killing two people?"

The killer said with a bit of a laughter," Sir, it is because I deliberately used someone else's fingerprints for murder. It was my sister's fingerprints and I was given special type of wax skin gloves by the unknown for the killings. So in every victim's neck the finger prints found are not mine, but they are of my sister. Also I used to wear it when I kill somebody and so when at airport you played that trick of getting the fingerprint of everyone onboard with complimentary drinks, I was laughing heavily inside. Apart from that the clue for the killings were given initially from the start; the fingerprints. No killer leaves his/her fingerprints. Nobody searches for a dead man's fingerprints. It was a clue, quite a difficult one though. The motive behind giving the clue was that it can bring somewhat police in the game and eventually in the end you can arrest me instead of me surrendering."

Deshpandey was satisfied with the story, but one thing left was who was behind all this and why did he do all this. He asked the killer if he had any idea about the unknown. The killer replied that he was desperate to meet him and has tried many time to trace the number or to know about him, but he was untraceable. Deshpandey called Ajay and told time to find about the unknown. He thought that ACP Arjun was related in that issue and pondered if he can be the unknown. But how can he be the unknown, he was in the rehab. To satisfy his curiosity, he decided to pay him a visit.

Deshpandey went to the rehab and asked the doctor about Arjun. The doctor said that he was not doing well, the drugs had caused damage to his brains and his body was not in his control. He was not able to walk or talk properly. The inspector asked  the doctor to take him to Arjun. The doctor took him to Arjun. Deshpandey saw Arjun sitting on a wheel chair, face tilted on his shoulder, hands lying loose from the body and darkness in his eyes. Just by seeing him, he felt so much pity that he straight away went out of the room, thanked the doctor and left. Ajay on the other side didn't found anything to trace the unknown. Failed Deshpandey sat in his cabin and thought that the unknown will not stay silent, he will surely make some noise soon and he need to keep his ears open for the slightest whispers.

The rocking chair in the rehab was rocking to and fro and the voice came," Thanks doctor for handling the matter with the police." The doctor replied," Anything for you sir, It's because of one of those only, you are here. If you want anything please tell, I will arrange." The voice replied," I won't be requiring much of assistance for some time now, but soon I will tell. Anyway thanks doctor."

The person closed his eyes and flashes seemed to be coming in his mind. The flashes becomes stable after a few moments. The person was none other than ACP Arjun Singh. In the flashes he saw how he ended up there.' The day after which he met Rishabh, he decided to probe further in the matter and not consider it a suicide. As he got deep, he found that one of the neighbor had seen goons leaving the house, before the suicide of entire family. He probed further and found solid evidence against the minister and his son related to the case. But someone from police department was working for them and leaked that thing to the minister. So the minister staged a murder of his wife, kidnapped the ACP intelligently on the excuse of giving some evidence by one of his men and then drugged him and placed him near the dead body of his wife. With fingerprints on the murder weapon and some fake evidences Arjun was found guilty and was convicted to the murder of his wife. He didn't oppose the decision because he knew he can't do anything as he had no evidence and then this thought struck in his mind. For the next one year, he did research and made the list of all the corrupted and criminal top notchs of the society. He started from the minister and contacted Rishabh so as to use him as a weapon to satisfy his vengeance. Some trustworthy people helped him in his  crusade due to his good deeds. He succeeded in that.'

Arjun opened his eyes and stood up from the rocking chair and opens the lock of the room on the left side. He entered it and had a complete look at it. The walls were converted to a giant notice board with photographs, documents and other stuffs stuck to it. Also the red tape was used to make a flowchart from top to bottom depicting the targets and relations. He went near the wall, picked up the marker and crossed the minister and his son's photograph. He moved toward the right, looked at the photograph and said," YOU ARE NEXT!!!"

  --------------------------------THE END-----------------------------------

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