Peter’s arrest has come as a ‘shock’ for his son .
Mumbai : Rahul Mukerjea, son of former media baron Peter Mukerjea, said that charges against his father in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case were “outrageous”. “Charges against him (Peter) are absolutely outrageous,” said Rahul as he emerged from the CBI office in South Mumbai on Saturday morning, where he spent Friday night after requesting the sleuths to let him do so.
Peter was arrested on Thursday by the CBI, which thereafter filed its chargesheet in the case in a magistrate court here. Peter is charged with murder and criminal conspiracy. He has also been accused of destroying evidence and lying to protect his wife Indrani. Seeking Peter’s remand, CBI had told the court that he was allegedly involved in the conspiracy with his wife and had played an active and important role in the commission of the offence and also misled his son Rahul to hide the fact that Sheena was murdered.
Rahul, who was in a relationship with Sheena, had said that Peter’s arrest had come as a “shock” for him. “I don’t believe he knew (anything about the murder)… otherwise I wouldn’t be here,” he had told reporters outside the court. The probe agency had also told the court that Peter was in continuous conversation with Indrani prior to, during and after the gruesome murder. Suggesting a financial angle to the alleged murder of the 24-year-old in April 2012, the chargesheet said that fear of Sheena inheriting the entire property of her and her husband in the event of the victim’s marriage to Peter’s son Rahul was the prime motive for Indrani to do away with her daughter.
Indrani, who was said to have a soft corner for Vidhie, her daughter by former husband Sanjeev Khanna, feared that the entire property might go to Sheena and Rahul if they were married, the chargesheet said. In this context, the charge-sheet added, “she planned a conspiracy with Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai to kill Sheena Bora”.The CBI had submitted before court that Rahul and Sheena were about to get married and, “after that, she (Sheena) could have got a share of property”. The investigative agency added that they were “looking into this (angle)”. The probe agency told the court that Rahul had recorded his conversation with Peter in which his father told him that he has spoken to Sheena and she was in the US.
Report sought for Raigad botch-up
Mumbai: With questions being raised on the alleged botch-up of the Sheena Bora murder case by Raigad police in 2012, the Maharashtra government has asked state DGP to submit a fresh report on it within 15 days and sought to know why no FIR was filed after the victim’s body was found. Dissatisfied with one-page report submitted by former DGP Sanjeev Dayal on the action taken against the Raigad police in 2012, the state government Directed Director General of Police Pravin Dixit to submit a fresh report. The state government has ordered a probe as to why the police had not filed an FIR or an ADR (Accidental Death Report) when Sheena’s body was first found at a forest in Pen taluka of Maharashtra’s Raigad district on May 23, 2012.
