When eccentric Dondi Pais empties her double-barrelled shotgun to scatter a pack of noisy mongrels on Karwa Chauth night, all of Habba Galli, Shivajinagar, is disturbed. Their distress turns to shock when the next morning a jeweller is found dead with a stray bullet in his skull. By a happy coincidence, ACP Bhavani Singh is on hand to investigate but as corpses start piling up in the bustling bazaar, will the canny old policeman be able to prove his powerful hunch?