Mumbai, Jul 29 (Deccan Chronicle): Former media owner Indrani Mukerjea strangled her daughter Sheena Bora and “sat on her face’ saying, ‘Sheena got her 3BHK’, said Shyamwar Rai, an accused–turned-approver in the court on Friday. Rai, who worked as Mukerjea’s driver, on Friday, deposed before the special CBI court as a witness in the sensational April 2012 Sheena Bora murder case.
Mukerjea had allegedly roped him into the conspiracy to kill Sheena, her biological daughter by assuring that she will take full responsibility of his children’s education and family’s expenses. He told the court that after strangling Sheena, Mukerjea sat on her face.
Rai told the court that Mukerjea gave Sheena water mixed with sedatives due to which Sheena was sitting with her eyes closed in the car behind the driver’s seat. “After heading towards Palli Hill area, Sanjeev Khanna went behind and sat next to Sheena. He caught Sheena’s hair and Mukerjea strangulated Sheena. Rai tried to close Sheena’s mouth but she bit him. First Sheena was making sounds and was gasping for breath but later she fell quiet. At that time Indrani sat on her face and said “Sheena got her 3BHK flat,” he told the court. Special public prosecutor Kavita Patil and Bharat Badami will continue to examine Rai on Tuesday. During the hearing, Indrani and Peter Mukerjea sat clam and composed. They noted down Rai’s statement individually.
On Friday Indrani’s other daughter Vidhi, met Peter and Indrani. While giving the entire sequence of events Rai said that he started working for Peter Mukerjea in 2004 and later in 2009-10 the entire family moved abroad and occasionally used to come to Mumbai. At that time apart from him Indrani’s secretary Kajal Sharma, Pradeep Waghmare and a cook Maya were regular employees.
In his statement Rai told the court that in March 2012, Sharma opened his Skype account. At that time for the first time, Mukerjea spoke to him about the plan to murder Sheena and Mekhail since they kept calling her as their ‘mother’ in front of others and were fighting with her over property rights.