The Sheena Bora murder mystery has seen more twists than a television sitcom. As skeletons continue to tumble out, here are the latest developments in the case.
>> Police Patil Ganesh Dhene of Raigad district's Hetevne village, who helped Mumbai Police team locate the spot where Sheena Bora was allegedly buried, today 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," Dhene 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." Asked if the area was burnt as a result of petrol being poured on the body, Dhene said, "I don't know if it was burnt by petrol or something else."
>> The police claim that a Mumbai psychiatrist had been paid off by Indrani Mukerjea to forge a certificate declaring her son, Mikhail Bora mentally unstable. This she allegedly planned to use if he persisted with attempts to find his sister after she declared that Sheena had moved to the US and wanted no contact with him. The Mumbai police is about to quiz the psychologist
>> Mikhail was believed to be Indrani's next target in 2012. 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, a groggy Mikhail had fled. Police have also recovered a suitcase which was allegedly meant for disposing his body after killing him, sources told CNN-IBN on Sunday.
>> Media reports say that a politician had put pressure on Raigad police to go slow on the identification process after the body -- now thought to be that of Sheena -- was discovered in the district in 2012, a police inquiry has found. When villagers at Pen found a half-burnt and mutilated body -- some sources said stuffed inside a suitcase with a nail-polished hand sticking out -- they had informed the village police patil, who liaises between a village and its police station. Every village in Maharashtra is expected to have a police patil. The police patil had immediately contacted the local police station, which sent constables to the spot with alacrity. But within 48 hours, the police "lost all interest", a source told ABPLive.
>> Sheena Bora had voiced fears months before her murder that her mother Indrani Mukerjea might be slow-poisoning her, two of the young woman's friends have told The Telegraph (External Link). They claimed medical tests had confirmed the 23-year-old was being poisoned but did not remember the details.
>> Indrani has admitted that she "hated" her daughter Sheena Bora, and that they were locked in a financial dispute, but has not confessed to killing the 24-year-old, claims the Mumbai police.
>> Indrani's former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai were on Sunday taken to Raigad district to 'recreate' the crime scene.
>> Indrani and Sanjeev have blamed each other for the crime during police interrogation. Indrani, her driver Shyam Rai and Khanna were interrogated at Khar Police Station on Saturday. During the course of the grilling, they blamed each other for the crime, a police official said.
>> Indrani's claim that Sheena had gone to the US after meeting her on April 24, 2012, the day after the duo met in Mumbai, seems to have fallen flat. When investigators, police sources said, asked her how Bora could go to the US when her passport was with Peter's son from his first marriage, Rahul Mukerjea, she claimed that her daughter had got another passport made. The former media executive was left speechless when told by the police that it was not possible for a person to get more than one passport made.
>> Indrani is also reportedly trying to shift the focus on her stepson and blamed Rahul who was in a relationship with Sheena. Her interrogators claim that when her lie was nailed, she said, "Rahul or any other boyfriend of Sheena must have killed her."
>> Who tipped the Mumbai police about the murder of Sheena Bora? An anonymous caller from Meerut or a high-flying socialite? According to sources, the tip-off came from a high-flying socialite, who has been in the know of things about the Mukerjea family for the last few years. The socialite is believed to have been a known face in the Mumbai and Delhi party circles and was closely associated with the Mukerjeas for a brief time.
