Sheena case: Indrani visited beauty parlour on day of murder, driver tells CBI
Mumbai: Hours before Sheena Bora’s murder, wife of media honcho Peter Mukerjea, Indrani stopped by a beauty parlour for a couple hours, their driver Shyamvar Rai told the CBI, as reported by The Indian Express.
Indrani, who is prime accused in the murder case, and her driver Shyamvar Rai had conducted a recce of at least five sites for over three days before narrowing it down to a spot in Pen to dispose off Sheena's body. Shyamvar Rai told the CBI that Indrani had calmly confirmed the spot where Sheena’s body was to be dumped after the murder.
According to the report, Rai gave a detailed narrative of the manner in which Indrani allegedly plotted the conspiracy to kill Sheena and her brother Mikhail. She had also decided upon a venue for Mikhail, he said.
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Rai told the CBI that Indrani had been in touch with him over Skype in 2012 before the murder. She expressed her desire to kill Sheena and Mikhail because they defamed her by calling her mother 'despite them being her siblings'. She also mentioned that there were disputes over property matters with other family members. Indrani was also furious about Sheena’s affair with Peter's son Rahul, and hence she wanted to kill them, the driver said.
Rai said Indrani promised that she will take care of the education of his two children and pay for medical emergencies and also ensured that he could keep working for them at the current salary of Rs 10,000.
Recalling the day of the murder, Rai said that after picking Sheena, the two had a tiff after which he was instructed to take the car through the bylanes in Bandra, Mumbai.
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Rai also stated that Sheena even bit his fingers during the struggle. “After throttling Sheena in the bylanes of Pali Hill naka, Indrani asked me take the car to Hotel Taj Lands End. Sheena’s body then fell between the two seats. Indrani went inside the hotel and after 15 minutes, asked me to get the car near the hotel’s gate. She then asked me to take her home,” the statement said.
Rai further claimed that it was Indrani’s former husband, Sanjeev Khanna, who decided to drop the plan of getting rid of Mikhail as “the spiked drinks had no effect on him”. He said that Khanna had advised Indrani to ‘deal with Mikhail’ another day.
Indrani, Sanjeev and Shyamvar are presently in CBI custody for allegedly murdering Sheena in April 2012 by strangulating her to death in their car and then dumping the body in a forest at Raigad.
Indrani's husband and former media baron Peter Mukerjea was also recently arrested by CBI for his alleged involvement in the case. He will be in the agency's custody till November 30.
