Maharashtra Police has ordered a probe into why the Raigad Police did not register an Accidental Death Report (ADR) after they found a burnt corpse, suspected to be of Sheena Bora, in 2012.
Superintendent of Police, Raigad Mohammed Suvez Haque said the Inspector General of Police, Konkan Range Prashant Burde will conduct the inquiry into the incident.
“Pen police station got information about a burnt body dumped at the spot on May 23, 2012. Three constables visited the spot, and conducted a spot panchnama . A doctor was called in to do a spot port-mortem. The body parts found were then sent to the J.J. Hospital in Mumbai. A station diary entry was made, but no Accidental Death Report was lodged. The inquiry will find out why an ADR was not registered,” Mr. Haque said speaking to reporters in Raigad.
The SP said the preliminary probe found that the police also did not collect the report from the JJ Hospital anatomy department as required. “The inquiry will also probe why the report was not collected. The original documents of the case have been handed over to Mumbai police, and at Investigating Officer’s request, the skeletal remains were exhumed yesterday,” he said.
On Friday, the investigators sent a team which dug the earth at the spot in Raigad where the body was dumped, and found skull and some skeletal remains suspected to of Sheena Bora. The skeletal remains were on Saturday handed over to the Kalina Central Forensic Lab for DNA testing. In three or four days, the forensic experts will be able to extract the DNA from the samples and match it with the samples taken from Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in her daughter’s murder.
Timeline of events:
April 24, 2012: Sheena Bora takes a leave of absence from work at Mumbai Metro. On the same day she sends a resignation letter to her employer. She is not heard from again. No missing complaint is ever lodged by any family member.
May 23, 2012: Police find a decomposed body after villagers at Gagode in Pen tehsil, Maharashtra, complain of foul odour.
August 21, 2015: Shyamvar Pinturam Rai is arrested following the seizure of a 7.63-bore pistol from him.
August 26, 2015: Indrani opened up that Sheena was her daughter from a previous marriage and not sister as maintained.
August 27, 2015: Sanjeev Khanna, a Kolkata based businessman and ex-husband of Indrani Mukherjea was arrested from Kolkata.
Aug 27, 2015: Sheena Shyam Rai, Indrani's driver, confessed that he murdered Sheena and disposed of her body, on the direction of his employer Indrani Mukherjea.
Aug 28, 2015: Sanjeev Khanna confessed to his "complicity in the crime." He had earlier said that, Sheena’s body was lying next to him in a car in which they were travelling together in Mumbai on April 24, 2012.
Aug 29, 2015: Maharashtra Police has ordered a probe into why the Raigad Police did not register an Accidental Death Report (ADR) after they found a burnt corpse, suspected to be of Sheena Bora, in 2012.
