Rahul Mukherjea, son of Peter Mukerjea, was questioned in Khar Police station.
He evaded questions by the media.
It’s been a day of dramatic developments in the Sheena Bora murder case. While it transpired that Indrani’s former husband is also a suspect, other family members opened up to the media.
Here’s what we know.
- Indrani Mukerjea, who is a key suspect, is Sheena’s mother, and not sister as she had originally claimed. This was confirmed by Sheena Bora’s brother Mikhail Bora.
- Mikhail Bora said he was shattered to learn of his sister’s death. He had been told she was abroad for studies. Mikhail now says he believes his mother Indrani was behind Sheena’s murder.
- Peter Mukerjea, Indrani’s husband, supplied a potential motive. In media interviews, he said that Indrani was upset that his son Rahul Mukerjea and Sheena had an affair. Rahul and Sheena are step siblings. Rahul Mukerjea was subsequently questioned by the police.
- Sanjeev Khanna, Indrani’s second husband, was arrested in Kolkata. His was the third arrest in the case, after the arrests of Indrani Mukerjea and her driver Shyam Rai.
- Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said in a media statement that Sheena Bora was strangulated and later burnt. In an unusual move, he claimed publicly that the trio had killed Sheena Bora. He also said Sheena’s remains were discovered almost a month after her murder in April 2012.
What we don’t know
- The police have been tight-lipped about the DNA collected from the murdered body of Sheena.
- There has been no information about Rahul Mukerjea. Rahul is Peter Mukerjea’s son from an earlier marriage. Rahul has been inactive on social media for an year now. Police say they are on the look out for him.
- Identity of Sheena and Mikhail’s biological father is not revealed yet.
According to a report in Tehelka, Peter and Indrani funnelled huge sums of money to various members of the family during the audit of their company, 9x Media, in 2009.
Now, the police have revealed that Sheena refused to transfer the money back. A feud between her and Indrani over this eventually led to her killing.
Friends of Sheena Bora’s brother, Mikhail Bora, organised a candlelight vigil in Guwahati, in memory of the deceased.
Times Now reports that Sheena Bora’s employment records show that she had resigned on May 6, 2012, which is after she was killed.
Mumbai police had claimed that she was killed on April 24, 2012.
