Hate Story—the whole story of MRP (Part 4)

Hate Story—the whole story of MRP (Part 4)

Delhi had changed a lot from the last time she had seen it, but then that was more than a decade ago. Mayuri felt nostalgic returning to her hometown after such a long hiatus, she wished she had time to explore the city. But then she remembered she had work to do here, hard work.

The first thing that she did was to get the details of all the flights from Hawaii to Delhi. From Piyush she had come to know of the possible dates when Ranjit and Meena would have booked their tickets. With a little flirting and a beautiful bribe, she got hold of all the flights between the possible dates along with the list of passengers. She came to know that Ranjit and Meena were together as suspected. After a little more brain work, spying ,bribing and a lot of hard work she got hold of the hotel in which Ranjit and Meena were staying, 'Hotel Lotus'. She had to be careful, as Ranjit would recognize her as soon as he saw her, hence she sent a henchman to the hotel to collect their details. She got to know that Ranjit and Meena were staying at room 612, they had checked in a week earlier and also that they had scheduled for a city tour next morning. Mayuri thought of sneaking in the room after they left for the tour. As scheduled Ranjit and Meena went for sightseeing that day. After making sure everything was clear, Mayuri sneeked in to their hotel room and began searching for the money that Piyush had told her about. But even after searching for 3 hours she could not find any evidence of hidden money. Dejected she returned to her hotel. 

She started thinking what had went wrong and where Ranjt would have kept the money. It was then that it struck her, ofcourse Ranjit being of suspicious nature would never keep money with himself, it was far to dangerous and risky, he would have transferred the money to somewhere safe. Now what was the safest place where he could hide it? Locker, yes offcourse locker that would be safe enough. But she didn’t see any locker in his room. Wait a minute Banks had lockers, yes that was the answer. What would be safer than banks, they had the most efficient lockers. Now she had to check which bank they had deposited their money in. She knew they were in a hurry to transfer the money to a safe place, hence they would have chosen a bank which was not very far away from their hotel. On Inspection Mayuri found that there were 3 banks in the hotel premises, Bridges, Bharat and Wallace. She investigated all the 3 banks for new accounts that opened in last 1 week. She got to know that Ranjit had  deposited his money in Bridges, and also that it was a joint account of Ranjit and Meena. 

Meena got suspicious, this was not Ranjit’s style, he did not trust anybody, why would he have a joint account? She decided to keep a tab on the money and his account activities. Mean while she called Sanjana and told her all the details. Sanjana and Piyush were happy, it had just been a week since Mayuri was on the case. Mayuri asked sanjana not to worry, she would take care of the matter. She also assured Piyush that she would get his money back. For the next 2-3 days she spied on Ranjit and Meena on their activities. This gave her ample time to visit her past with Ranjit.

(Flashback)

Sanjana and Ranjit had just been married and had thrown a lavish party for the same. Mayuri being Sanjana’s friend was also invited. From the moment Mayuri entered the party Ranjit had his eyes fixed on her, and although Mayuri was not feeling good about this she didnt bother for Sanjana’s sake. After the Party Ranjit took Mayuri aside on the pretext of discussing a professional matter, but all Mayuri could see in his eyes was lust. He would have taken her in had it not been for Sanjana who came by to ask what the matter was. Seeing Sanjana Ranjit changed his tone and said to her that he wanted to recruit Mayuri for a spy job for one of his rivals. Even though she was not interested, on Sanjana’s insistence she took the case. Now Ranjit would come to her house every 2 days on the pretext of official meeting about the case and try to seduce her. But when he realized she would not give in he ultimately raped her. When her husband Harshwardhan heard about this he could not take it and killed himself. Mayuri went through hell for the next 2 years because of this. Mayuri even thought of killing Ranjit, but seeing Sanjana’s love for Ranjit she decided to let it go. 

But that was then, when Mayuri heard Ranjit had cheated Sanjana also she could take it no more. She decided to kill Ranjit. That was one of the reasons why she had taken this case. From all this Mayuri knew that Ranjit was a womanizer and did not care for anything other than money. 

Mayuri was jolted back to reality, off course that had to be it, she found the answer to the question that was poking inside her head all this while. Why had Ranjit opened a joint account? She dressed up fast and dashed for the bank. She hoped she would be proven wrong, but knowing Ranjit she was sure this was it. On reaching the bank she came to know that Ranjit had withdrawn all the money from the bank. She panicked, she hoped she was not too late, she ran for Ranjit’s hotel room, sweat running down her face. Thank god she had taken her licensed revolver.

…….To be continued