Sheena Bora murder: Indrani ‘playing victim card,’ retorts Peter Mukerjea

Former media baron Peter Mukerjea on Thursday told a trial court in Mumbai that his wife and co-accused Indrani Mukerjea’s allegation that he may have played a role in Sheena Bora’s disappearance appeared to be a “desperate attempt by her to wriggle out of the situation”.

The CBI took the same line, dubbing Indrani Mukerjea’s application as mala-fide and filed with dishonest intentions.

Indrani and Peter Mukerjea are among those arrested in the case related to the April 2012 murder of Sheena, her daughter from an earlier relationship.

“The application by Indrani is with an ulterior motive to malign the reputation and cause serious prejudice (against Peter Mukerjea),” he said in the reply filed on Thursday.

On November 15, Indrani Mukerjea filed an application demanding that Peter Mukerjea’s call data records (CDR) be disclosed, and also alleged that he may have played a role in Sheena Bora’s disappearance and framed up Indrani.

Peter Mukerjea’s reply said the allegations were “completely false and defamatory”, and apparently a “desperate attempt… to wriggle out of the situation thereby trying to play the victim card”.

The allegations were “wanton and baseless” and “based on the figment of Indrani’s imagination”, the reply said.

The CBI said that Indrani Mukerjea had made all …read more