Former TV CEO Indrani Mukerjea along with ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai were arrested last month on charges of murder of daughter Sheena Bora who was missing from 2012. Indrani was charged under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 34 (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, and Khanna under sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120-B (conspiracy).
In a mix of high society, wealth, sex, family deceit and murder that took the police from Mumbai to Bristol only to end at former INX Media CEO, Indrani Mukerjea. Mukerjea, 43, is accused, along with her ex-husband and driver, of strangling Sheena Bora, dousing the body in petrol, setting it alight and burying the remains in a forest outside Pune in 2012. While they returned to their normal lives, everything went south for Indrani and Khanna when the driver was caught on an unrelated case of possession of illegal arms on August 21, 2015. During interrogations, Shyamvar Rai revealed details regarding Sheena Bora's murder. Later that month, Sheena's brother Mikhail Bora disclosed that both, he and his sister Sheena were Indrani's children, much to the shock of everyone including Indrani's husband, Peter Mukerjea. While Sanjeev Khanna and driver Rai have already confessed to the murder, Indrani's lawyer argued she was “falsely implicated”.
The case is a classic example of honour killing as it was later found out that when Bora disappeared aged 22, she had been living with Peter Mukerjea’s son Rahul, his child from an earlier marriage. The two step-siblings were not blood relatives, but their parents were furious about the relationship. The Sheena Bora Murder Case has cooked up quite a storm in the media, not falling short on drama and twists, the latest being one Siddharth Das who has approached the media claiming to be the biological father of both, Sheena and Mikhail.
