Court records driver’s statement, CBI files charge-sheet

Shyamvar Rai, the arrested driver of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea in connection with the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, has recorded his statement before a city court.

“The court recorded Rai’s statement under provisions of Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which unlike a police statement is admissible in court,” a CBI official said on Thursday.

The official added that the statement would be sent to the trial judge by the Magistrate, who will unseal it and give copies to the lawyers. “We don’t know the contents of the statement as it was recorded in-camera,” he said.

Earlier, Rai had written to the court and had said that he wanted to ‘reveal the truth’ about the case. However, Magistrate RV Adone had then not recorded his statement saying that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had not followed proper procedures.

Indrani (43), her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and Rai will be produced before the court on Friday.

On October 31, the trio was remanded to judicial custody till November 7, which was further extended till November 20.

Meanwhile, the CBI also filed a charge-sheet in the case on Thursday. Later in the day, Indrani’s present husband and media former baron Peter Mukerjea was arrested in connection with the sensational murder case.

Sheena Bora (24) was allegedly murdered by her mother  Indrani, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyamvar Rai in April 2012 and her body was dumped in a forest in the neighbouring Raigad district.