Sheena Bora murder case: Indrani admits to ‘role,’ say cops, lawyer says bid to bias

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All these alleged statements to the police are inadmissible in court. When contacted, senior counsel Mahesh Jethmalani, whose colleague Gunjan Mangal is appearing for Indrani Mukerjea, told The Indian Express: “If the police are leaking these details, they are prejudicing and creating an opinion against Indrani and already declaring her guilty.”

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Meanwhile, Indrani’s husband Peter Mukerjea was questioned by police for the second day today. This time, police sources said, he was asked about the stake sale by the couple in the INX News Pvt Ltd deal, with investigators probing the asset distribution among the two.

Sources added that police are also looking at their shareholdings, bank accounts in India and overseas, and details of companies they are involved with.

“After Peter walked into the Khar police station on Wednesday, Indrani started weeping,” said a senior police officer. “She claimed she was part of the conspiracy but did not participate in the killing and only accompanied Sanjeev in the car. She also claimed that it was Sanjeev who strangulated Sheena with a stole while she sat next to him,” the source added.

However, driver Shyam Rai has claimed that while he drove the vehicle, it was Indrani and Khanna who allegedly strangulated Sheena. “Khanna had claimed that it was Indrani who killed Sheena,” said a source.

“Indrani told us that she had seen the spot (where the body was disposed of) while visiting a friend’s farmhouse in 2012 and that she conducted a recee on April 23, a day before the murder. She asked Rai to collect a rented car and visit the spot,” said the official.

Rai is said to have told interrogators that after Sheena’s murder, he parked the car in a Worli garage owned by Peter. “Rai returned with the body around 8 pm in Worli on April 24 and stood outside the garage through the night. He said he was scared to sit with a body. He said he received a call from Indrani around 3 am on April 25, and picked her and Sanjeev from Hiltop hotel in Worli and drove them to the spot.”

Indrani was arrested on August 25, just over three years after Sheena went missing, with police claiming that they found specific leads linking her to the murder and disposal of the body.