A day after the Bombay High Court ordered that the statements of accused-turned-approver, Shyamvar Rai, should be given to all accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, The Hindu has a copy of his testimony.
Rai is the former driver of prime accused Indrani Mukherjee.
According to Rai, whose confession was recorded under Section 164 of Cr.PC, Indrani and Rai plotted over Skype to kill not only Sheena but also Mikhail.
Rai does not mention any involvement of Indrani’s current husband Peter Mukerjea.
He says Indrani strangled Sheena while former husband Sanjeev Khanna held her. He describes in detail the day Sheena was murdered and what role Sanjeev Khanna played.
According to the prosecution, 24-year-old Sheena was murdered on April 24, 2012. Indrani, Khanna and Rai had allegedly strangled Sheena, Indrani’s daughter from an earlier relationship, inside a car.
Her body was later found in a forest in Raigad.
He also said that Indrani told him that he was a trustworthy man of the family and that she will take care of his kids’ education and his family’s medical insurance.
She told him that Mekhail and Sheena were addressing her as mom and defaming her everywhere and there was a dispute with them over property. She told him about Sheena’s relationship with Rahul and said that it was important to kill Mekhail and Sheena both but he need not worry as someone from Kolkata was coming to do this and that his job would only be that of a driver.
