Sheena Bora case: Cops reconstruct murder with Indrani, her ex-husband and driver

Mumbai: In a bid to reconstruct the sequence of events in the Sheena Bora murder case, the three accused — Indrani Mukerjea, her driver Shyam Rai and her second husband Sanjeev Khanna — were made to confront each other and were later taken to some undisclosed locations in Mumbai where they had allegedly been on the fateful day.

A police source said a lot of information came out when the accused were made to confront each other. They passed the buck to each other about who strangled Sheena. The driver, said a source, is playing a “bechara” (wretch) who gave in to Indrani’s orders, as she also lured him with a huge sum that he could have never earned through rightful means. Police sources also said that Rai had got himself a piece of property in his village in north India from the money given by Indrani for the murder. However, the driver, who confessed his involvement, said that he did not strangle Sheena. Khanna too claims he did not strangle her and fell asleep. Indrani confessed her role in the crime but said Khanna and Rai strangled her.

After the confrontation, the police is said to have taken the trio to find out where they had taken the suitcase from which Sheena’s body was dumped and the exact area from where she was kidnapped. Sources said that the investigators are still hoping to get some clues from Indrani’s Worli residence and garage where Sheena’s body was kept in a car for a day. Khanna also visited Mumbai every two months and stayed at the hotel Hill Top, from where the police is hoping to gather more evidence.

“For last five years, Khanna would visit Mumbai every two months and stay at Hotel Hill Top. We suspect that Indrani paid for his visits and stay. We are also trying to find out whether the couple was in touch before that also,” an investigation officer said.

A police source said now it has a clear idea of what the possible motive could be. For the second day now, Mumbai chief Rakesh Maria and second-in-command Joint CP Deven Bharti personally monitored the recording of statements.

Apart from the property angle, which is almost ascertained, the police is also probing two more possible angles, they said. These are Indrani being blackmailed by Sheena and the embezzlement angle where Sheena is said to have had received a lot of siphoned money from Indrani and was not ready to return it to her. The police is also taking the help of IT experts to probe the embezzlement angle involving Indrani.