The CBI on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against media baron Peter Mukerjea, which said that Peter and his wife Indrani were not happy with Sheena Bora and Rahul Mukherjea’s relationship. Since their efforts to separate them failed, they decided to kill Sheena. The investigating agency has also submitted statement of a witness in a sealed envelope in the court saying that the evidence shows that Peter was directly linked to the murder. They added that there was a threat to the witness’ life and hence the statement was sealed.
While seeking Peter’s remand, the CBI had mentioned monetary transactions from the bank account of the accused, however, the chargesheet is silent on any money trail.
A CBI officer, on condition of anonymity, said that the agency will file another supplementary chargesheet against all the accused. Earlier, the CBI had filed a chargesheet against prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyamwar Rai on November 19, 2015 in the Sheena murder case. Peter was arrested later and hence the chargesheet against him was filed on Tuesday.
According to the chargesheet running into around 500 pages, both Peter and Indrani during a conversation with their friend Prithul Sanghvi, had said that “this relationship was not correct”. The CBI has recorded statements of 52 witnesses, but only 38 have been attached with the chargesheet.
The agency is also relying on how much the husband and wife spoke on the phone immediately before and after the murder and disposal of the body and also exchanged messages during this period. According to the CBI, the call data records show that Indrani spoke to Peter for 924 seconds soon after the disposal of the body on April 25, 2012. They also spoke on the phone on April 24 at around 12.24 pm for 1,329 seconds and also at 1.36 pm for 242 seconds.
To show the soured relationship between the deceased and her mother Indrani, the agency has cited two e-mails written by the victim, Sheena, to her close friend. According to the CBI, in one of the e-mails, Sheena had said that Indrani had tried her level best to ensure that she lost her job by trying to influence higher-ups at Sheena’s workplace. But somehow she was able to save her job. In the second mail, which was written two days later to the same friend, Sheena termed her mother as a “bitch” and “witch” and said she was very unsupportive of her.
The agency has also given a comparison of money given to Sheena and Vidhi (Indrani’s daughter with her former husband and co-accused Sanjeev Khanna) from 2005 to 2007, which suggested that Vidhi was given more money than Sheena. The court later transferred Peter’s case to a sessions court and it is likely to come up on February 29.
