Indrani foiled Rahul's bid to file missing person case

Rahul Mukerjea

Former Star TV CEO Peter Mukerjea's son Rahul was once again quizzed by the police here on Thursday about the murder of Sheena Bora, daughter of Peter's wife Indrani.
According to police sources, Rahul had tried to file a missing person complaint in April 2012, after Sheena, his girlfriend, went missing. However, Indrani - who was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly murdering her daughter - convinced the police not to register the complaint as her daughter had gone off to the US to avoid being stalked by Rahul.
Rahul and Sheena were in a relationship for quite some time, but Indrani was vehemently opposed to it. Indrani, who had also started a TV network after her husband Peter quit Star TV, had hidden the fact that Sheena was her daughter. She had even told Peter that Sheena was her sister.
The victim was her daughter from an earlier marriage to one Siddharth Das. She later married Sanjiv Khanna, with whom she had another daughter, Vidhi. (Peter was her third husband). Mumbai police arrested Sanjiv in Kolkata on Wednesday, as he was alleged to have been present in the car in which Indrani strangled her daughter to death in April 2012.
After allegedly killing her daughter, Indrani, along with Sanjiv and her driver Shyam Rai, drove nearly 100 km south of Mumbai to a forest in Raigad district, where Sheena's body was burnt and disposed of.
A few days later local residents complained to the police about the foul smell emanating from the forest. The police recovered Sheena's decomposed body, but the murder mystery remained unresolved.
The crime surfaced only recently when Shyam was arrested for possession of an illegal weapon. On interrogation, he confessed to having helped Indrani in killing Sheena and disposing of the body.
The Mumbai police have also sought details from Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd - the operator of Mumbai Metro - where Sheena had been working as a junior manager for nearly a year. On the day she was murdered, the company had been informed, allegedly by Sheena, that she was resigning.
Mumbai police has also sent a team to Guwahati to quiz Mikhail Bora, Indrani's estranged son, who has been living with her parents for most of his life. Mikhail claims he has been pestering his mother about his missing elder sister for the past three years, but she had failed to convince him.
The high profile Indrani, who was a regular at Mumbai's party circuit for years, had never told her friends here about her other two children - Sheena and Mikhail. To her close family members and friends, they were her younger sister and brother. nithin@khaleejtimes.com