Prema tries to investigate Keerthi's death, however her attempts prove unsuccessful. Rajesh, Keerthi's college friend, offers to help her, but is brutally killed by Vicky. As Vicky forces him to sign a suicide note before hanging him, Arjun thinks that Rajesh must have been in love with Keerthi and hence her murderer. Later, Prema and Vicky meet Keerthi's college friend, Sangeetha, who becomes suspicious of him. When she finds out that he was Keerthi's boyfriend back in college, she calls the Sharma household during Vicky's and Prema's engagement party. Vicky intercepts the phone and impersonates Ashok Patel, and then arrives at her place. He strangles her, then fits her body in a suitcase and throws it in the river.