Mumbai: Skeletal remains, which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claimed to be of Sheena Bora, are reportedly untraceable. This was conveyed to a special CBI court and is likely to weaken the probe agency’s case against one-time media tycoon Indrani Mukerjea.
On Friday, the prosecution admitted before a special CBI court hearing the case that the probe agency was unable to trace the skeletal remains recovered by the Pune police weeks after Sheena was allegedly murdered.
Reacting to the development, Indrani’s lawyer Sana Raees Khan told ThePrint, “The prosecution’s acknowledgment that skeletal remains found by the police are not traceable raises serious doubts about the integrity and reliability of the evidence presented against my client Indrani. It underscores the need for a thorough and unbiased examination of the facts in this case.”
A former human resources consultant and co-founder of INX Media, Indrani Mukerjea was arrested by Mumbai Police in 2015 for the alleged murder of her 24-year-old daughter Sheena Bora. It was alleged that the conspiracy to murder Sheena involved Indrani, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna, then husband Peter Mukerjea, and driver Shyamvar Rai.
According to the CBI, Indrani allegedly killed Sheena — whom everyone knew as her sister — because she was upset over Sheena’s relationship with Rahul Mukerjea, son of Indrani’s then husband Peter Mukerjea from his first marriage.
In January 2020, Mukerjea reportedly alleged in court that the technology relied on to establish that the skull exhumed in Raigad was that of Sheena was “amateurish” and “not befitting scientific process”.
Indrani was released on bail in 2020, after which she wrote a book titled ‘Unbroken’ about her life. In an interview with ThePrint last August, she had said that she instinctively knows as a mother that her child is still alive.
The case returned to headlines in February this year after the release of a docu-series on Netflix titled ‘The Indrani Mukerjea Story: The Buried Truth’.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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