The judicial custody of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her ex-driver Shyamvar Rai in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, was on Thursday extended by a sessions court till December 17, even as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought its nod to question the trio in jail.
“We seek permission to interrogate the accused in jail for three weeks,” CBI special prosecutor Kavita Patil told the court.
Special Judge H S Mahajan is likely to hear the probe agency’s plea on Monday.
On November 20, a Metropolitan Magistrate court had transferred the trial in the case to a sessions court here and had directed that the three accused be produced there on December 3.
According to CBI, they have received the forensic laboratory report on the Skype communication amongst the trio and they need to confront the accused with it. “Accused Indrani, Khanna and Rai are further required to be examined in respect of the contents of messages exchanged over Skype between Indrani-Rai and Indrani-Khanna immediately before the incident. These messages have been retrieved by the forensic laboratory and the report has been received recently,” said CBI in its application.