Indrani Mukherjea, Shyam Rai in judicial custody

Mumbai: A fortnight after their arrest and custodial interrogation in the sensational Sheena Border murder case, a local court on Monday remanded key accused Indrani Mukherjea and her driver Shyam Rai to judicial custody till September 21 while another accused Sanjeev Khanna was taken to Kolkata for producing him in a court there.

Special Public Prosecutor Vaibhav Bhagade sought judicial custody for Indrani and Rai and told the court that Khanna could not be produced as he was taken to Kolkata this morning as part of investigations.

The Magistrate asked the police to produce Khanna in the court here on Tuesday. The mandatory period for police custody of all the three ended on Monday. On Saturday, the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate court had extended their custody till today with the prosecution stating that the ongoing probe is yet to cover a large area and that Indrani remains “uncooperative and a hard nut to crack.”