Raigad: Indrani Mukerjea's former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai were taken to Raigad district to 'recreate' the crime scene in the Sheena Bora murber case by Mumbai Police as investigators sought to gather evidence.
Accused Sanjeev Khanna was brought to Khar police station and later taken to the forest in Pen tehsil, along with the driver, police said. During sustained interrogation here on Saturday, Indrani and Sanjeev blamed each other for the crime. Indrani's son and Sheena's brother Mikhail Bora was also questioned at a hotel in Bandra.
Police are also probing Mikhail's claim that just hours before Indrani and Sanjeev met Sheena on April 24, 2012 and took her for what would be the last drive of her life, Indrani had also allegedly drugged him. By the time they came back, the suspicious, groggy Mikhail had fled.
Meanwhile, a village official in Raigad district, who helped Mumbai Police team locate the spot where Sheena Bora was allegedly buried, on Sunday said when he first spotted the body in 2012 it was just a skeleton with no flesh.
"It was all skeleton. There was no flesh. The local government doctor took it for post mortem, after which it was buried," Police Patil Ganesh Dhene of Hetevne village said. Asked how he came across the skeletal remains, Dhene said, "I had gone to collect mangoes. The body was not in a suitcase. The surrounding area was burnt."
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A team of police, forensic experts and villagers had on Friday exhumed skeletal remains after Dhene identified the exact spot where Sheena's body was allegedly dumped in the forest three years back. The team from Mumbai had reached Gagode Budruk village in Pen teshil of Raigad and the digging started around 6 am on Friday. Around noon, having dug just a couple of feet into the ground, the team sighted a portion of the skeleton sticking out.
They learnt about Police Patil Ganesh Dhene of Hetevne village, who was present when the body was found at the crime scene on May 23, 2012, and also when it was later buried there by the police the same day. Dhene, who has been Police Patil since 2011, remembered that the body was buried near a mango tree in 2012, which helped in identifying the spot and leading the police team there.
As per the Bombay Village Police Act, a Police Patil is directly subordinate to the Police department and the taluka magistrate. In case a crime is committed in the limits of village, he makes immediate report to the police station and renders necessary help to the police officer to detect the offender.
