Mumbai: The Sheena Bora murder case is unravelling at a scandal-a-minute pace. Sheena, the daughter of media bigwig Indrani Mukerjea, was killed on April 24, 2012 and her body dumped in the forests of Raigad.
Indrani is in custody on charges of murdering her daughter, along with trusted driver Shyamvar Rai and second husband Sanjeev Khanna — her accomplices. The three picked up Sheena that fateful day three years ago, strangled her in the car and dumped her body in a bag in the Raigad forests the next day. They also partially burnt the bag and the adjoining area. The Pen police had found her body a month later but disposed it without keeping records or even registering a murder case. Though they sent a sample of her DNA to Mumbai, they “forgot” to collect the result. This is why it took the Mumbai police, which had to largely rely on confessions, so long to join the dots. Whether the Pen police’s lackadaisical attitude will hamper investigations and possible outcome of the case, only time will tell.
The police, who kept a strict watch on Indrani for the last three months, arrested her and Rai this Tuesday. Sanjeev Khanna was picked up from Kolkata during lunch on Wednesday. It has now also emerged that the trio went for a recce of the forests to check where they could dump the body and how quickly they could do it.
Here is the latest from this gruesome tale:
1. Sanjeev Khanna, the second husband of Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, on Friday was sent to police custody till August 31. Police, who is seeking Khanna’s custody for maximum available period, want to take him to the spot where incident took place. Police have also recovered two visas of Norway and Ireland from Khanna.
2. Mumbai Police on Friday recovered few bones after digging the spot in Raigad where Sheena’s body was dumped. The bones will be sent to FSL for testing. In another development, Mumbai police sent samples of Sheena’s tooth and hair which was lying at JJ Hospital to Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for DNA tests.
3. Mikhail Bora, Sheena’s brother, will also join the investigation as a witness in Mumbai.
