The unexpected

Revelation

The following week Monica's aunt came to the police station. She was very tensed when she started making her statement to Bunny Singh. "There is something I have to report, My husband John, had a very bad relationship with Monica. That is why she hated staying here. As far as I knew he was physically abusive towards her, at least I thought that was all. He even threatened that he would kill her, if she disobeyed him. I actually wanted to say this that day but he stopped me. My relationship with him was never good. I have decided to leave him. I knew he had anger problems and thought  therapy could not help it. Now when I heard of Monica being murdered and the other poor girls as well. I just couldn't stay silent." she explained. "Your information was helpful." Bunny stated. 

Then a few days later Gurmeet called Akhila and told her that a girl named Archita Mayank had dropped by. He reported what had happened. Archita said that someone fully clothed in black had followed her when she had gone to the pharmacy. "I went to the pharmacy to buy some medicine for my sister. Then I started walking home through the alley, it was a shortcut. I had a sudden feeling that someone was following me. I was a little scared and started walking more faster. Then I was sure I heard footsteps. I turned behind and then felt someone grab me from behind, I always carried a pocket knife with me, I cut her and ran away from there." 

"Wait her?" Bunny asked. "It was a woman atleast her scream sounded like one." Archita replied. I could also see that she had long hair. Maybe I just assumed at the point." Bunny was taken aback by the revelations. It was known that the crimes were committed by a man, but he couldn't notice that two of the murdered girls had visited the same pharmacy, and that both of them had purchased birth control pills. Since it all seemed to connect to the pharmacy Bunny asked Archita, "By any chance did you go there to buy contraceptive pills?" "Well yes" she replied slightly embarrassed. "Well it was not for me actually it was for my sister as I said and she didn't want to have kids, her husband didn't understand. She wanted me to get the pills without his knowledge." 

Bunny got all the information he needed, he told Akhila and Ashish all that he knew. "This is quite unbelievable, that there is a woman working in or around the pharmacy who attacks girls who buy birth control pills. I have visited the pharmasy before and have spoken to the woman who work there they were the ones who told me about Monica getting kidnapped." Ashish stated. "Well maybe it was just a coverup." Bunny replied. He asked Akhila whether she could go undercover and purchase pills from that pharmacy. "This is ridiculous, and against the protocol besides my.. uh.. Agent Shukla will be against it."

"If I'm right we may catch the killer, and if I am wrong it won't cause no harm." Gurmeet stated. "Well how can these crimes have committed  by a woman." Ashish asked. "I have no idea maybe the rape and the murder were not connected." Bunny said. "Yes, Monica was sexually assaulted by her uncle and it is known fact that the bastard Amit had raped Rithika and god knows who else."  Akhila  added. "So is this some kind of a work of a moral police." Ashish asked confused. Gurmeet was not really sure about that.

They finally agreed to carry out the plan. Akhila went to the pharmacy, it was a small shop with dim, flickering lights. There was a broken shelf on the opposite of the counter. The medicines were neatly labelled and stacked in the shelves. Near the billing counter  there were two neatly dresses woman. One of them looked homely, with bright eyes and a blunt nose. The other had a small face, sharp eyes, a frowny mouth and a cut on her arm. Akhila bought the pills and tried to initiate a conversation with the ladies. She noticed the cut on the woman's arm and asked how it happened. "Oh it is just a light scar." she said trying to not let anyone see how deep the cut was. I was cleaning up the shelves and a bottle fell on my arm. Aneesa saw it too. The other woman nodded meekly. "I still think you should get it treated." she told Priya, who quickly dismissed the idea. Akhila left the shop.