The Mumbai police said on Tuesday that they had initiated a probe into the latest twist in the Sheena Bora murder case — the forensic results of the bone samples exhumed from Pen in Raigad and the bone samples sent by the Raigad police in 2012 not matching.
Sheena’s mother Indrani Mukerjea and two others are accused of murdering her and subsequently dumping the body in the forests of Raigad.
The bone samples exhumed recently have been confirmed as belonging to Sheena’s. However, doctors at the BYL Nair Hospital, who conducted the forensic tests on the samples, submitted a report to the Khar police last week expressing the suspicion that the samples received could have got mixed up and may not belong to the victim.
The Pen police station in Raigad, which did not register a case upon finding the remains, later suspected to be Sheena’s, had sent a right humerus, two teeth, a burnt skin patch and strands of hair to JJ Hospital in 2012.
Team headed by Maria
After a team headed by then Mumbai Commissioner Rakesh Maria began investigations, J.J. Hospital handed over these three-year-old samples to the Khar police last month. But the forensic team of Nair Hospital, which later examined these samples, found that the bone samples did not match.
A police source close to the investigations said that the onus was now on their Raigad counterparts to explain the discrepancies in the two reports. He said that although they would question the staff of the two hospitals, the focus would largely be on the Raigad police which sent the samples in the first place.
