BlueBerries

I quickly dialed 100. Police took half an hour to reach. My wife was crying and was getting worse every minute. Police asked a few basic questions from both of us as soon as it entered. And I as usual gave all the correct answers. 

They then started their customary work. It was mayhem everywhere. My house was soon full of dog’s shit. They started taking pictures, following foot prints, spraying all over finding finger prints, searching all over and God know what else. At last they took our deposition and were gone as soon as they came.

Next day they arrived again, and ofcourse without notifying. But this time for taking my statement only. I got scared. Why only me?  

The sub inspector who was “interrogating” me had a badge hanging around his chest with his name written on it which said Pankaj Joshi. I thought for a moment but preferred calling him with his rank only.

“Inspector saab! Is everything al-al-al-right?” I asked with a stammering voice.
“Yes, don’t panic. We have lost your written statement. That’s all.” He smiled and put his hand on my shoulder.

I sighed in relief and told him what was true, exactly the same I said the previous day.

“As everyday routine, we both went to bed at 11 o clock” I started. “I have a habit to wake up at 4 am. I then drink a glass of water and go back to sleep. But when I woke up last night and went straight away to the refrigerator, I saw drawing room’s window was smashed. I slowly picked up my cricket bat and switched on the light. I was shocked at what I was looking. My whole house was like a mess. I quickly ran towards my almirah, opened my safe to check, and as anticipated, whole gold and cash was gone. I woke up my wife. We both looked everywhere but gold and cash was nowhere. And that is when I called you at 6 am.”

The moment I completed my statement, he gave me a tight slap on my face.

“What is this non sense?” my wife shouted in anger.

“Thieves should be treated like this Madam Ji.” He replied.

“Are you kidding me?” this time she shouted even louder.

“It’s a hoax. I have done nothing darling?” I announced.

And that is when I was slapped on the second cheek as well.

I fell unconscious on the floor. When I woke up, my wife was fighting with the Sub Inspector. She was not letting him speak and kept on shouting on him.

Police took me and my wife to the police station They asked me why I stole all my gold and cash. But I rather cross fired asking them to prove if I have stolen it.

“We searched all over your house.” Pankaj Joshi started. “We took finger prints from different places. We didn’t find any finger print of any other person. There were just your fingers prints everywhere even on almirah and the safe.”

“Gloves shall be worn by thieves, Inspector saab. You are trapping me in the wrong charges.” I started yelling on him.

“When we searched the backyard, we found this.” He opened a drawer and pulled out a necklace. It was our necklace. “this also has your finger prints on it, Mr.”

“Maybe they tried to escape from the backdoor when they must have mistakenly dropped this necklace. And as far as I remember this is same necklace I put on my wife with my own hands two days ago.” I tried to clear the entire situation.

“We not even found this necklace but all the cash and gold hidden in your backyard.” This time he stood up from his chair.

“How would I know sir, how all this was in my backyard?” I said nervously. I was sweating badly this time. They were clearly trapping on wrong charges.

“This could be any of my enemy’s tricks to fix me up.” I exclaimed. “The thieves may have deliberately left the money behind.” This time I dared to raise my voice.

“As per the statement of your wife, she had not seen this necklace since a year. You both never took it out of your safe.”

I looked at my wife; she was looking at me full of anger. I started crying. I was caught.

“And she has also told us that at night she safely kept the remaining cup of her favorite blueberry ice cream in the freezer before going to sleep, which she didn’t find in there in the morning.” 
“Maybe the thieves…” I just started when Sub Inspector stopped me.

“May be you fed your wife her favorite blueberry ice cream with your own hands last night and maybe thieves who were wearing gloves ate the remaining ice cream because they were feeling hungry at 3 am in the morning.”

"So you did all this just because you ate my  favorite blueberry ice cream?" she shouted so loudly that everybody in the police station started looking at us."and how dare you by the way?"
 Sub inspector was smiling but I will not be able to look into my wife’s eyes any more.