Former media baron Peter Mukerjea was on Tuesday charged with murder, abduction, destruction of evidence and giving false information in connection with Sheena Bora murder case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed its supplementary charge sheet which revealed that Peter and Indrani, the prime accused in the murder, started planning Sheena’s murder since 2009. The 500-page charge sheet states that Peter and Indrani were unhappy with Sheena’s relationship with Rahul, Peter’s son, and that Peter had told one of his friends, Prithul Sanghavi, that the relationship was not right. The charge sheet mentions that Peter and Indrani sold a South Delhi flat that belonged to Sheena.
The charge sheet has given details of the calls made between Peter and Indrani after Sheena’s body was disposed. While one conversation lasted 924 seconds, other calls made on April 24 2012 lasted 242 seconds and 1,329 seconds. A text message was also exchanged between the two.
A month after Sheena’s death, Peter sent an e-mail to Rahul maintaining that Sheena is fine. Excerpts of emails exchanged between Sheena and her friend are also mentioned in the charge sheet. In a mail dated August 26, 2009, Sheena said: “Indrani has tried her best that I should lose my job. She had contacted higher up in Reliance but I managed to save my job.”
In another e-mail on August 28, 2009, she said Indrani was not a good mother and that she had been tortured by her .
The charge sheet filed before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate R.V. Adone discloses that Sheena was given far less money compared to Indrani’s daughter Vidhie between 2005 and 2007. Although no financial trail is known of as yet, it is made clear that Peter has a role to play in Sheena Bora murder case.
The CBI has charged him with Section 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 302 (punishment for murder), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison etc), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 203 (giving false information respecting an offence committed), 307 (attempt to murder), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian Penal Code.
A Timeline of events:
February 16, 2016: CBI files chargesheet against Peter Mukherjea.
February 12, 2016: The bail plea of Peter Mukerjea was rejected by a special CBI court which observed that the charge sheet was yet to be filed and investigation in the matter was still on.
February 5, 2016: Indrani Mukerjea, prime accused in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, moved an application in the special CBI court here seeking bail on medical grounds saying that she was suffering from frequent “blackouts".
January 25, 2016: A magistrate’s court extended the judicial custody of former media baron Peter Mukerjea till February 8, one of the accused in the Sheena Bora murder case.
Janurary 6, 2016: The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court adjourned media baron Peter Mukerjea’s bail application to January 16.
December 15, 2015: Peter Mukerjea's judicial custody extended till December 28.
December 9, 2015: Indrani, Peter laundered Rs. 275 crore said a CBDT report.
December 3, 2015: CBI moves court to quiz Indrani, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyamvar Rai in jail.
November 26, 2015: Mukherjea family released out a statement against charges on Peter. Peter, Indrani siphoned off fund to 9X Media, told CBI to the court.
November 23, 2015: Peter Mukherjea's CBI custody extended till November 26.
November 19, 2015: CBI arrests Peter Mukherjea along with filing charge sheets against Indrani, ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and Shyamvar Rai the driver.
October 7, 2015: Indrani discharged from hospital,doctors confirmed drug overdose.
October 2, 2015: Indrani Mukherjea admitted in JJ Hospital after she allegedly overdosed on anti-epileptic pills.
September 19, 2015: Maharashtra announces the handover of the case to CBI.
September 9, 2015: Peter Mukherjea reveals to Khar police that Indrani often abused him.
September 7, 2015: Body of Sheena Bora found in Raigad forest.
September 5, 2015: The police custody extended again till September 7.
September 3, 2015: Indrani Mukherjea confessed her role in the murder.
September 1, 2015: Siddharth Das confessed that he is the biological father of Sheena and Mikhail Bora.
August 31, 2015: Fresh charges filed against Indrani attempting to kill her son. Police custody of the three accussed extended till September 5, 2015.
August 30, 2015: The three arrested were taken to the crime scene in Raigad. The call records were also checked by the police.
August 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.
August 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.
August 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.
August 27, 2015: Sanjeev Khanna, a Kolkata based businessman and ex-husband of Indrani Mukherjea was arrested from Kolkata.
August 26, 2015: Indrani opened up that Sheena was her daughter from a previous marriage and not sister as maintained.
August 21, 2015: Shyamvar Pinturam Rai is arrested following the seizure of a 7.63-bore pistol from him.
May 23, 2012: Police find a decomposed body after villagers at Gagode in Pen tehsil, Maharashtra, complain of foul odour.
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.
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