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The sensational Sheena Bora murder case probe took a new turn on Friday, with police claiming that Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukerjea, confessed to his complicity in the crime during a joint interrogation of three accused on a day the victim's skeleton remains were recovered.
"We just interrogated the third accused (Khanna) and he has confessed to his complicity in the crime," Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria told reporters after Indrani, wife of former STAR CEO Peter Mukerjea, her driver Shyam Rai and Khanna were brought face to face along with her son Mikhail Bora. Khanna had earlier claimed that he was sleeping when 24-year-old Sheena was murdered and found her dead in the vehicle.
"This morning, we have recovered the skeletal remains of the deceased Sheena Bora. We have also recovered her passport from Dehradun today. This would negate the theory that Sheena went to the US. Further inverstigations are going on," he said.
Maria said the skeletal remains would be sent for DNA test on Saturday.
"We have interrogated Mikhail as well and he has also given us some points which we are verifying," Maria said.
As the probe into the mysterious murder gathered pace on Friday with the questioning of Khanna, who the police said played a role in the abduction of the victim along with her mother and driver and killed her in Pen in Raigad more than three years ago.
Khanna, who was arrested in Kolkata, was on Friday remanded in police custody till Monday after being charged with murder, kidnapping and other offences.
Brought here from Kolkota last night, he was taken to Khar police station where Maria himself joined other officials in questioning the suspects.
Earlier producing Khanna before court, police contended that Indrani, her driver and Khanna abducted Sheena in a car and took her to a forest in Pen town of Maharashtra's Raigad district where they killed her allegedly by strangulation.
The trio had then poured petrol on her body and burnt it in the forest, they said.
Police said they want to recover the object with which Sheena was killed and also the car in which she was abducted and taken to the forest in Pen.
They said they have taken possession of Khanna's passport, laptop and mobile phone and sought his custody on the ground that a detailed probe is required to be done in the case.
Another important person who was questioned today for possible clues to the murder was Mikhail, brother of Sheena, who was brought from Guwahati. He had been making claims that he has evidence to prove why his mother killed Sheena, saying he but he would give it to police.
Today he said he would cooperate fully with police because he was seeking justice for his sister.
