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after a four-hour-long search found the one that Anita had rented under the name Gauri, three days after her husband’s death. Ramu, the caretaker of that property, who recognized Anita from her photograph, told Khan that she had paid cash to take the farmhouse on rent for a ten-day period, which coincidentally ended a day before Sahil’s death, during which time she would arrive all by herself a little after lunchtime and ask him to leave her all alone for the next five hours. By the time Ramu would return, it would be past sunset and she’d be on her way out. On examining the farmhouse, Khan discovered shattered bottles of beer and empty shell casings in the backyard, indicative of the fact that he had found the place where Anita had honed her shooting skills for a full ten days before the night of Sahil’s death, thus proving beyond doubt that his death had nothing to do with any act of self-defence, but was cold-blooded murder, prearranged and most foul.
    When confronted with this evidence, Anita broke down and gave a full confession. According to her, she had been married off by her family to Vidyut, fifteen years her senior, when she was just eighteen, gave birth to her daughter Rhea the following year, and after all those years of marriage found herself feeling stifled and very angry. She knew she was a beautiful woman and the world was at her feet. But while other women, far less beautiful and intelligent than herself, were boldly stepping forth into the world, meeting interesting people and exploring all the wonderful, new-age opportunities, there she was, shackled in a sexless marriage to a dull, conservative bore, who she had suffered seventeen long years, and she wasn’t going to take it any more. She knew that if she divorced Vidyut for these reasons, he’d throw her out without a penny and even society wouldn’t support her point of view. Therefore he had to die if her dreams were to be realized. But what those dreams and ambitions were, she hadn’t figured out. All she knew was that she wanted unlimited freedom, the tag of Mrs Tarachand, Vidyut’s billions, but with Vidyut nowhere in the picture. Then as luck would have it, Rhea introduced her to her boyfriend Sahil, and that’s when Anita saw her opportunity. It didn’t take her long to figure out that he was undoubtedly a rotten egg, and once a quick background check confirmed his criminal record, Anita knew she had found the perfect person to get rid of her husband. She wasted no time in seducing the dim-witted teen, first turning him into her secret lover, then poisoning his mind against her husband, until the boy was convinced that killing him was the only way by which the two of them would be together. Anita then supplied Sahil with a gun, which she stole from her husband’s private collection, and told him exactly when and where he should eliminate Vidyut. She then went back home and stole a few other things, hiding them in a safe place, after which she pretended that she had just discovered the theft of the valuables and the gun, informing her husband of the same, even telling him that she suspected Sahil of the crime, and getting him to lodge a complaint at the Malabar Hill police station. But in spite of acting instantly on Vidyut’s complaint, the police was unable to find Sahil, because Anita had gotten to him first and led him to an effective hiding place, where she incited him against Vidyut some more. Then, after the deed was done and Vidyut was dead, Anita waited two full weeks, during which time she perfected her shooting skills, after which she contacted Sahil and asked him to come over to her place at around two that fateful night, telling him that she had a plan to help him elude the police for good. Importantly, she also told him to bring the murder weapon along so that she could dispose of it, assuring him as an afterthought that since the servants would be in their quarters and Rhea heavily sedated, no one would see him enter