Mumbai: It has now been established that Peter Mukerjea was, in 2012, trying to locate and get details of call data records of his step-daughter Sheena Bora soon after her death. And according to sources close to the CBI investigations, he was using his “contacts” in the Mumbai police in order to receive that information.
This also raises a question that whether the police had any indication of what the Mukerjeas were up to in 2012, especially after Peter’s son Rahul informed them about Sheena’s disappearance and their failure in registering a missing complaint report. Moreover, the Pen police led by then SP, R.D. Shinde, who around the same time found the decomposed body of an unidentified woman (Sheena) in a burnt suitcase chose not to register even a accidental death report let alone register a murder case, which was made out prima facie. Based on this fact, it is likely that the CBI will summon some policeman or officer from the Mumbai police for questioning.
Peter and Indrani were living in the UK and Indrani returned to India on April 23, 2012 to kill Sheena with the help of her driver Shyamvar Rai and her first husband Sanjeev Khanna. Throughout the time, Indrani was in constant touch with Peter over phone. Call records have shown that they had spoken for almost half an hour before the murder, during the dumping of Sheena’s body in Pen, Raigad and even after dumping the body.
Around April 26, Peter too returned to India. A short while after his return, Peter got in touch with his contacts in the Mumbai police. It is not clear yet whether his contacts were from the constabulary, officer level or from the IPS cadre but our highly placed sources confirmed that Peter took help from his contacts in the city police to help him locate Sheena’s location through her mobile phone and also wanted to see her call data records.
Interestingly, while Peter was on one hand was trying to locate Sheena’s location, on the other hand he had lied to Rahul on the phone that he had “already spoken to Sheena” and that “she was alive.” This particular statement of Peter about Sheena has been made by Rahul to the CBI. Sources also claimed, “Rahul did not give this recording regarding Peter’s information to the Mumbai police because he did not trust them.”
Another interesting fact is that Sheena’s phone was never found and Indrani had used it to send messages to Rahul saying she is breaking up with him and had settled abroad. The CBI told the esplanade court on Friday that they want to find Sheena’s belongings like her purse, ATM card and her mobile phone.
