However, the third accused (Khanna, a former husband of Sheena’s mother Indrani Mukerjea) is yet to reach Mumbai and to be interrogated. Only then, we will be able to tell you about the motive,” Maria told reporters after a day-long interrogation of Indrani, her driver and Rahul <g data-gr-id="21">Mukerjea</g> at the suburban Khar police station.
To a question whether the police had confirmed if Sheena was Indrani’s sister (as the latter had made people believe) or her daughter, Maria <g data-gr-id="26">said</g> “Sheena is the daughter of the lady accused.”
He said the investigators recorded the statement of the accused, who signed as Sheena on the letters prepared by the “lady accused” informing the company in Mumbai, where Sheena worked that she was resigning, and also Sheena’s landlord that she was ending her lease and licence agreement.
Asked if the police will interrogate Indrani’s third husband (media baron Peter Mukerjea), Maria said: “We will do a complete investigation. It is just 48 hours now....let the third accused come, then we will be able to tell you about the motive.”
During the day, Maria himself was involved in the questioning of Indrani, her driver, and her stepson
Rahul. Indrani’s own son Mikhail was questioned in Guwahati and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna in Kolkata.
Her driver SP Rai and Khanna are believed to have told police that Indrani, wife of former Star CEO Peter Mukherjea, had done a recce of the place in Raigad district (near Mumbai) where Sheena’s body was to be dumped a day before the murder on April 24, 2012.