Top cop Maria joins day long grilling in Sheena murder case

Fresh murky details emerged in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case as Mumbai's top cop Rakesh Maria today grilled her mother and main suspect Indrani, her driver and step son Rahul Mukherjea while her son Mikhail was questioned in Guwahati and her former husband in Kolkata.
However, the motive behind the murder remained a mystery even as the driver S P Rai and Sanjeev Khanna, a former husband of Indrani Mukherjea, are believed to have told police that Indrani, wife of former Star CEO Peter Mukherjea, had done a recce of the place where the body was to be dumped a day before the murder on April 24, 2012.

Khanna, who had divorced Indrani, is believed to have told the Mumbai police in Kolkata that he was in the car in which Sheena was allegedly strangulated but claims to have had no role in the crime.
This apparently contradicted the arrested driver's claim before police that Indrani and Khanna had strangulated Sheena in the car after giving her a spiked drink in a hotel room in Mumbai.
Then the body was taken to Pen in Raigad taluk where it was burnt with petrol. Khanna had reportedly come to Mumbai on April 23, 2012, a day before the murder and took a flight back to Kolkata on April 25, according to police sources.

In a murder in which intriguing relationships have come to surface with Indrani claiming Sheena as her sister, television channels showed the purported birth certificate of the victim.
The document records her as daughter of Upendra Kumar Bora and Durga Rani Bora, who are actually her grandparents, i.E., the parents of Indrani. Her date of birth has been given as February 11, 1989.
For the second time in less than 12 hours, Rahul Mukerjea, son of Indrani's current husband Peter Mukerjea through another marriage, was questioned by police case as he was in a relationship with her step sister. Indrani and Peter had reportedly opposed the affair.