‘Figment Of Her Imagination’: CBI Refutes Indrani Mukherjea's Claim That Sheena Bora Is Alive

“It cannot be believed as the investigation has concluded. Despite having every inch of evidence pointing out the same, the accused has the audacity to make the wildest of claims,” said the CBI.

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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday refuted Indrani Mukherjea’s plea in which she claimed that her daughter, whom Indrani is accused of killing, is alive. 

"Figment of her imagination" and next to impossible, said the CBI in response to her claims. She had recently submitted an eight-page application before the CBI court, claiming that her daughter, Sheena Bora, was alive, reports PTI. 

 

CBI says that Indrani Mukerjea's plea claiming that her daughter Sheena Bora, whom she is accused of killing, is alive, is "figment of her imagination" and "next to impossible"

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In the application submitted through her lawyer Sana Raees Khan, Mukerjea had sought that the CBI and prosecution be directed to file an affidavit in response.

Mukherjea had claimed that, in 2021, she was allegedly informed by a former police inspector, Asha Korke, lodged in Byculla women’s prison in an extortion case that the latter had met a woman in Srinagar who looked like Sheena Bora.

In its response, the CBI had stated that it had filed a chargesheet and two supplementary chargesheets against Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna, Shyamvar Rai and Peter Mukerjea under various sections of the IPC including murder, after conducting a thorough research. 

"Her application has no merit, the same has been filed with malafide intention to delay the hearing of the trial," the CBI said, reports PTI. 

The probe agency further stated that there was sufficient oral, documentary, medical and scientific evidence on record to prove the complicity of the accused.

It also said that the Mukherjea has the prime role in committing the murder of her own daughter by strangling her and setting the body ablaze.

“All evidence - oral, documentary and scientific - clearly establishes that Indrani Mukerjea is the prime accused, who hatched the conspiracy to murder Bora and executed the same with the help of co-accused,” it said.

“There is no substance in her plea. It is a cooked up story either by the accused or by the so-called Asha Korke,” the probe agency further said.Since Bora had been strangled to death, it is impossible that she is alive and living somewhere in Kashmir and she spoke to Korke, it said.

It is nothing but a figment of imagination of Mukerjea or Korke, it added, saying that the application is "far-fetched".

“It cannot be believed as the investigation has concluded. Despite having every inch of evidence pointing out the same, the accused has the audacity to make the wildest of claims,” the CBI stated in its affidavit.

Indrani Mukerjea, along with her husband Peter Mukherjea and former husband Sanjeev Khanna was arrested in 2015 in connection with the killing of her daughter Sheena Bora.