15 January,2016 06:40 AM IST | | A Correspondent
A local court yesterday allowed CBI to interrogate Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyam Rai in the Sheena Bora murder case
A local court yesterday allowed CBI to interrogate Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyam Rai in the Sheena Bora murder case. The investigating agency also filed an application requesting the court to let them question Peter Mukherjea but the court has reserved that order for today.
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Indrani and Peter Mukerjea. File pics
"We want to question Indrani, Khanna and Rai in jail," said a CBI official. Judge H S Mahajan of the special court for CBI cases granted the agency's plea.
The Esplanade magistrate's court, however, directed CBI to produce the order of the sessions court (special CBI court) for obtaining a similar order for Peter. CBI in its plea said the facts disclosed by Indrani and two others needed to be "checked and verified" with Peter.
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Sheena Bora
"The magistrate's court directed CBI to produce the order of the sessions court and reserved its order (on questioning Peter) till today," said Peter's lawyer Kushal Mor.
CBI has not yet filed a charge sheet against Peter, so his case has not been transferred to the special CBI court. Indrani Mukerjea (43), Sanjeev Khanna and Shyam Rai have been chargesheeted. All the four accused are now in judicial custody.
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Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai were arrested for allegedly killing her 24-year-old daughter Sheena Bora, three years back. The crime came out in the open when Rai was arrested on August 21 last year and later a 7.63-bore pistol was seized from his custody. He then confessed about the crime to the cops and following that on August 25, 2015, Indrani was arrested and on the very next day Sanjeev Khanna. It was on September 19, 2015, that Maharashtra government announced the handover of the case to CBI. On November 19, 2015, CBI arrested Peter Mukherjea.
