Mumbai: Even as the metropolitan magistrate court extended Peter Mukerjea’s CBI custody till November 30 in the Sheena Bora murder case, it did not rule out the possibility of the motive for murder being the financial trail in the murder case.
The CBI said it needed time to investigate as it had sought Interpol’s help to get a report of the international bank transaction pertaining to the case. During investigation, CBI officers came to know that Indrani has opened a bank account in Sheena Bora’s name in HSBC bank Singapore with the help of friend Gayatri Ahuja, who was a DBS bank employee.
Additional solicitor general Anil Singh said, “During custodial interrogation, Peter Mukerjea revealed that a bank account in the name of Sheena Bora might have been opened in HSBC or any other bank in Singapore or Hong Kong by Indrani Mukerjea.
Reliable information has been received that the company INX Media Pvt Ltd, run by Peter and Indrani, had carried out an internal audit, in which nine companies have share holdings. In those companies around Rs 900 crore have been reported to have been invested.
As on March 31 2009, these companies were alleged to have instances of misallocation and siphoning of substantial amount of funds. Defence lawyer Mihir Gheewala argued that to verify bank accounts and find out the financial transactions, Peter’s custody was not required.
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