“You may leave the room and wait in where you were all this time.” Dubey ordered Puneet.
He asked Ravi to get the next man in. He had now known it would not be possible to interrogate him at the police station. They could not gather any evidence of murder against this passenger even from Puneet.
This is going to be long interaction, Dubey knew. His duty as a policeman had yet again robbed him of his night sleep. This is going to be my last case. I had come here to solve the mystery behind one death but in the process had two of them, with both unsolved. This man is the key to the case. He must be investigated thoroughly.
Ravi brought in the next witness to K.Swaminathan’s death to the same room where they had watched the video. The inspector was taken aback seeing his face; it was the same that was shown in the ending moments of the video in the pen drive.
He started on the offensive with this man, because there was a good chance of him being guilty of at least one of the two deaths, although in no case he seems to be directly involved. There was video evidence that K.Swaminathan had jumped to his death and there was also the video evidence that Kaushik had strangled Nisha. It was imperative to listen to his story carefully to get an answer to many of the unanswered questions.
“You are accused of Kaushik’s murder. Do you accept it or not?”
The passenger calmly replied “That’s impossibility. The TTE had taken a video on his mobile phone of Kaushik jumping out of the train. If you had seen the video, you would know, I had no hand in his death. That evidence is sufficient to acquit me of Kaushik’s death. But yes, I can tell you about Kaushik – the type of person he was and why he could have committed suicide or why he had killed Nisha.”
The Inspector for once was dumbfounded. This man was clear in his talk and is so convincing. It would be fruitless to protest against him. It would be intelligent enough to listen to what he wants to say, and then hope his mouth does his own undoing.
“Before you go on to tell any further, we will visit the mortuary. You have to identify a body.” Dubey said.
All three of them went to the mortuary where the passenger broke down on seeing the body.
“Yes, it is of Kaushik’s”. He broke down.
After consoling him of his friend’s death, they returned back to the room. All three of them settled down to listen to the narrative of the passenger who went by the name of Bhagwandas.