The Anonymous Tip-off
An anonymous phone call set off the entire chain of events leading up to Indrani Mukerjea’s arrest in the murder of Sheena Bora.
The Quint has learnt that the tip-off the Mumbai Police received that Sheena was murdered came from an anonymous caller in Meerut, near Delhi.
“It was an anonymous call and we followed-up on the information supplied by the caller,” police sources said. A further investigation on the antecedents of the anonymous caller indicated that he was peripherally linked to INX Media, a company that was founded by the Mukerjeas.
The Mukerjea ‘Proxy’ Turns Informer
After INX Media was liquidated, the Mukerjeas allegedly distributed some of the monies to various ‘proxies’ under one condition - that they return the money to the Mukerjeas later. These ‘proxies’ earned a commission in return.
It was one of these proxies, based out of Meerut, who tipped off the Mumbai Police that Sheena Bora was murdered, perhaps by her own mother.
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