Sheena Bora Murder: Special visitors for Indrani Mukerjea in jail; will she use her trump card now?

Mumbai, Sept 15: Will Indrani Mukerjea be released in Sheena Bora murder case? Her one decision after Sheena's murder might help her to escape from legal troubles in India.

Earlier it was reported that Indrani had surrendered her Indian passport and acquired British nationality sometime around 2012-2013.

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Now, she is a British National now. A team from the British Deputy High Commission in Mumbai met Indrani on Monday, Sept 14.

Indrani, the main accused in Sheena murder case, was sent to judicial custody. The team enquired whether Indrani required any help.

They also asked her about the facilities she has been given in prison, as part of the mission's normal procedures for British citizens living or working abroad.

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Earlier, the deputy high commission team was denied access and asked to get clearance from the union home ministry.

Officials from the British Deputy High Commission in Mumbai and the British High Commission in New Delhi were not available for comment.

Indrani, the wife of former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai have been charged with the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora in April 2012.

The trio -- accused of killing Sheena and then dumping her partially burnt body in the forests near Gagode in Raigad district of Maharashtra -- is currently in judicial custody till Sept 21.

While police were yet to ascertain the motive behind the murder, investigators are probing the wealth and property angle as one of the possible causes.

OneIndia News
(With agency inputs)