"So tell me Mr Aashay, why did you do it?" Mukta asked, looking at him keenly.
Aashay sat across her in the small interview room, eyes fixed somewhere else, lips pursed.
"You are already under arrest. If you do not speak now, we can directly put you in prison as we have Mr Nachiket's confession about each and everything the two of you have done", Mukta stated, watching him closely.
This was the trick she knew could break the hardest of criminals. Since they were brought here, they had been kept in separate interview rooms for over two hours, each assuming that the other one was getting interviewed.
Whatever their relation with each other might be, Mukta knew that each one would try to save his own skin. She had to listen very carefully and play intelligently if she wanted to get the purely true version out of these monsters.
She got up. "Okay then, hope to see you in court someday," she said, turning and heading stealthily towards the door, slowly counting to five.
