Sheena Bora murder case: CBI to probe Indrani Mukerjea's stint in hospital

The investigative agency has asked the Maharashtra authorities to preserve her body fluid samples and provide the reports on the circumstances under which Indrani landed in hospital.

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Indrani Mukerjea
Indrani Mukerjea, who is currently in jail, was admitted to staterun J J Hospital in Mumbai on October 2 after she complained of uneasiness.

The Central Bureau of Investigation will probe recent hospitalisation of Indrani Mukerjea, an accused in her daughter Sheena Bora's murder case. The probe agency has asked the Maharashtra authorities to preserve her body fluid samples and provide the reports on the circumstances under which Indrani landed in hospital.

Sources said the agency, which has taken over the murder probe, has asked Maharashtra government to preserve samples of Mukerjea's stomach wash, urine and blood.

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The samples were collected when she was hospitalised on suspicion of drug overdose.

The agency has also asked the state government to provide it with inquiry report of Byculla prison and any other report prepared by other authorities and action taken with regard to the incident.

She was discharged four days later on October 6. After Indrani's hospitalisation, conflicting reports had emerged on suspected drug overdose in prison. While one report showed she had overdosed on anti-depressant pills, the other found no such thing. Maharashtra government had ordered a probe in the incident under IG (Prison) Bipin Kumar Singh.

Indrani was arrested on August 25 this year for her alleged role in the murder of Sheena, her 25-yearold daughter from a previous marriage, on April 24, 2012. Sheena was killed and her body burnt and disposed of in a forest in Raigad district the next day.

The other two accused in the case are Shyamvar Rai, Indrani's former driver and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna. The sources said DIG Lata Vijay Kumar, who is supervising the probe, has asked the team to minutely scan all documents provided by Mumbai Police, which was probing the matter, before the questioning session can begin in the prison.

Sources said the investigating agency, during the course of its probe, will examine the role of all the actors, including the brother of Sheena, her friend Rahul and husband Peter Mukerjea.

At present, the CBI is trying to detect if there any loose ends in the findings of Mumbai Police which need to be probed to make a watertight case, following which all aspects of motive which could be behind the killing will be examined, the sources said.

CBI took over the investigation of the case which was earlier registered by Mumbai Police alleging that the three arrested hatched a criminal conspiracy to murder Sheena.