CHAPTER - 1

My uncle was working abroad. Once he came back and stayed with his family for about 12 days. I happened to meet him once or twice during his stay . He knew that I write stories on ghosts.

Once he called me and said, " I would like to tell you an incident that had happened in that country which surprised the local people to a great extent. The incident taught us that killing or murder is a great sin, and the nature has its own mechanism of punishing the criminals."

The story goes as follows:

There is a big college a little away from my office. It also has Hostel facilities both for the girls and boys. Many students were staying in the hostels, particularly those who hail from distant places.

One girl student who was in the final year graduation, was close to a male student, who also was in the final year b ut in the different stream.

The girl Roomy was good looking , charming slim and smart, and the boy was tall and robust. But the boy was of rowdy type, he was rude and very indecent in his behaviour with the people. The people ,generally, used to avoid him for his rudeness.

Their friendship went on smoothly for some time, but then the differences rose between the two. The girl severed the relation with him and started avoiding him totally. She gave him the impression that she hated him from the bottom of her heart.

This made the boy, Louise very cross with Roomy . He wanted to sort out the differences but the girl was not interested, and she remained stubborn with her negative attitude towards him.

For, by interacting with him for a very long time , she realized that nothing can change his habit and manner, he is a born stupid, and it is useless to try to transform him.

Roomy had tolerated his dominating attitude, abuses, rudeness for a very long time She also tried her best to transform him, but in vain.

Louise could not tolerate his separation from Roomy. He could not tolerate to see her moving with any other person. He, therefore, planned to finish her off. So, once Louise forcibly took her with him to an isolated place, raped, slit her throat and killed her brutally.

He carried her body in his car and in the darkness of night buried it on the bank of a canal . This incident happened about 3 years ago,when this place was totally isolated with no road ,no traffic there.

But now a concrete road had been laid along the canal just last year, cutting short the distance between the Airport and the city by about 6 kms. As a result, it has become very busy and congested road.

However, Roomy's murder remained a secret among her college friends. They were given to understand that she had left that college and joined else where. This fact could also not be ascertained from her family because she was staying in the hostel, and her family was living quite far from the college.

Even after her death, some close friends of Roomy started getting occasional phone calls from her.. This strengthened their belief that she was staying elsewhere.

Once the final year college students made a programme to go to a beautiful site for picnic. 32 students participated in the picnic including 18 girls. Roomy suddenly called her friend and said that she would participate.

On the scheduled day, she came to the college and paid her share amount to the leader of the group. Every body was happy to get their old friend again with them.

It is very interesting to note that Louise did not participate in the programme due to some prior engagements.