By
Rajesh Rajgor
They say love is blind, and a blind man therefore cannot even see if he’s heading towards a valley. Unless he has a strong sixth sense, to warn him about the disaster, he’s going to face! They say love has power. Power to identify your inner strength, power to deal with the difficulties of life, they say only people with powerful heart fall in love!
It was love at first sight, as they say, for Ria Baneerjee a bold and beautiful 21st century girl when she meets Rajnish at a party. It was not that Ria haven’t got any proposals earlier, but it was she who always refused. It went as her arrogance and attitude, to whoever she said no; but it was just that she knew what she wanted and was waiting for her dream man. In Rajnish she saw the confidence and the flamboyance to carry her well.
One meet emulated other and it was no surprise for their families, when they decided to get married. This didn’t go well with Soham, Ria’s office friend. Even others in the office were shocked at this, as they knew how good friends Ria and Soham were. He tried calling her, even SMS’sd her, but their came no response. Ria was happy to be married with Rajnish who pampered her like a child and was calm and reclusive than Soham’s loud and over the top behaviour.
The building of 16 G Coral1, the area were Soham lived, was bustling with policemen, ambulance and lot of curious on lookers, to find out what had happened to Soham, who lay almost dead on his sofa with a knife deep inside his right abdomen. It looked a case of failed love and successful suicide. A witness who last saw Soham alive, said to the inspector in charge RAJNISH, that he saw Soham with a beautiful lady in a shopping Mall.
‘I won’t live long, if you are not in my life’ read the SMS on Ria’s cell. But that was when Soham was alive, 3 days ago. Even while in office, Ria was constantly being bombarded from Soham’s Sms’s. She liked it initially; it was much recent she felt his msgs to be bothering. In fact she was tired of being flirty with guys and now wanted to be stable. Despite, she liking Soham, she wanted to marry a person who is secure in his thoughts and deeds. The only reason she could give Soham, for her denial was, his over involvement in whatever she did.
Knife in right abdomen clearly indicated that someone had killed Soham. The two coffee mugs had different finger prints, but how then the finger prints on knife were Soham’s, was still a matter to probe. Whose were the finger prints on second coffee mug? Rajnish was still trying to figure out this. The witness was sent to the sketch artist.
When Rajnish went home, he was surprised to see Ria decorating his dining table with newly bought crockery. Ria had prepared dinner and was ready for a romantic night ahead. Ria had something in her mind, she wanted to show how much important Rajnish is to her. Post dinner when they headed towards their bedroom, Rajnish could feel the intimacy and the aura that Ria wanted to be close to him.
While riding on the seventh heaven Ria revealed. “I killed my friend Soham. I would not allow anyone coming in between my love.” Rajnish could not believe his ears. He could not believe that a girl like Ria could do this. When she went to the mall to buy the crockery’s she accidently bumped into Soham, who was following her. The shopping bag in her hand fell down and all the items she had bought, including the knife, scattered on the floor. Soham helped her pick the items on the floor and thus had his fingerprint on the knife.
Ria realized that this was her opportunity to get away with Soham. Therefore she went with him to his house. Both had coffee and just when Soham got busy in showing her how much he cared for her, Ria pulled the knife out, wrapping it in a plastic, and perforated it in his right abdomen. In a split of a second Soham lay down, unconscious.
Ria had done what she wanted. She had taken care that the murder looks suicide, but to her bad luck Rajnish was the in charge of the case. She therefore confronted this to Rajnish as whatever she did it, was for her love.
There was silent in the room. Ria was waiting for Rajnish’s answer, just then a beep sound was heard, as paper came out of the fax machine. Rajnish got up to collect the paper. It had Ria’s sketch on it. Rajnish turn around and looked at Ria. He took the paper out of the machine and while looking at Ria, he tore it! Love had won over fact and the soft corner was crushed to death, even when it remained alive in their hearts for each other!
