Indrani did it, confirms ex-husband

Late on Friday, Mumbai top cop Maria told media that Indrani’s ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna admitted to his complicity in the crime. He also spoke of skeletal remains that a police team had recovered from the crime scene in Raigad, adding that Sheena Bora’s passport had been recovered from Dehradun which belied claims that she had moved to the US. Police teams had been sent out to other parts of the country to gather valuable clues, he added.

Khanna, who was arrested in Kolkata, was Friday remanded in police custody after being charged with murder in the mysterious murder case and was taken to an undisclosed location for joint interrogation with her and her driver.

Brought here from Kolkata on Thursday night, he was taken to Khar police station where Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria himself joined other officials in questioning the suspects.

Earlier producing Khanna before court, police contended that Indrani, wife of former STAR CEO Peter Mukerjea, her driver Shyam Rai and Khanna abducted Sheena in a car and took her to a forest in Pen town of Maharashtra’s Raigad district where they killed her allegedly by strangulation.

The trio had then poured petrol on her body and burnt it in the forest, they said. Police said they want to recover the object with which Sheena was killed and also the car in which she was abducted and taken to the forest in Pen.

They said they have taken possession of Khanna’s passport, laptop and mobile phone and sought his custody on the ground that a detailed probe is required to be done in the case.

Another important person who was questioned on Friday for possible clues to the murder was Mikhail Bora, brother of Sheena, who was brought from Guwahati. He had been making claims that he has evidence to prove why his mother killed <g data-gr-id="45">Sheena</g> but he would give it to police.

On <g data-gr-id="40">Friday</g> he said he would cooperate fully with police because he was seeking justice for his sister. Gautam, the brother of Peter Mukherjea, was also called to the police station questioning.

The others who were grilled on Friday were Indrani, who has been arrested and is the main suspect in the case. She is believed to have killed her 25-year-old daughter, who she has presented as her system all these years, with help from driver S P Rai and Khanna in a taxi on April 24, 2012.

Khanna was produced in Bandra court and remanded to police custody till August 31 after being charged under Sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120-B (conspiracy) of the IPC. In what could be crucial in taking the probe forward, police collected a few pieces of bones from J J Hospital, where it was sent in May 2012, a month after Sheena’s body was burnt and dumped there.

“The hospital sent its report in 2013 saying it can not determine the age, sex or cause of death on the basis of the bones sent by the Pen police,” Hospital Dean Dr T P Lahane said.

“Today, Khar police came to the hospital and collected the bones from us”, <g data-gr-id="39">Lahane</g> said declining to make any comment when asked whether the samples could be vital forensic evidence in the case.