Indrani Mukerjea, on Tuesday consented before the magistrate court to have voice-sampling tests conducted on her in relation to the Sheena Bora murder case.
Indrani Mukerjea, on Tuesday consented before the magistrate court to have voice-sampling tests conducted on her in relation to the Sheena Bora murder case.
Mukerjea was brought to court on Tuesday and when the judge asked her if she wanted to give her consent for voice-sampling, she said, “I give my consent for the test.”
When Mukerjea was produced before the court, the special public prosecutor for CBI Kavita Patil was not present in the court and when the magistrate told her that the CBI had submitted an application last week seeking to conduct voice-sampling tests on her, she asked, “What is it about This is to match with what ” On this, the magistrate asked her to wait for CBI counsel to arrive.
When advocate Patil arrived in the court Mukerjea said that she is ready to give her consent but first she wants to know “This (voice sample) is to match with what (sic) ” Ms Patil said that her voice sample was required to match with some other voices. However, when Mukerjea again raised certain other queries, advocate Patil told her that she was not supposed to know other details, as it was part of the investigation and she just has to say whether she would consent for the voice sample test or not. Following this, Mukerjea gave her written consent for the tests.
All the three accused, Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjiv Khanna and driver Shyamwar Rai will be produced before the magistrate on November 7. The court is likely to decide on Rai’s application in which he has said that he wanted to divulge in more details about the case.
Mukerjea, Khanna and Rai have been arrested on the charge of murdering Mukerjea’s daughter Sheena and disposing off her body in a Raigad forest in April 2012.
The police had exhumed the remains of a body from Raigad forest and later claimed that digital super imposition of the profile of Sheena had matched with that of the skull recovered from the forest.
Sheena (24) was allegedly strangled in a car, her body was then burnt and dumped at a forest in Raigad, about 84 km from Mumbai. Last month, the Maharashtra government decided to transfer the murder probe to the CBI after days of uncertainty on the supervisory role of former Mumbai police chief Rakesh Maria, who was shunted in the midst of the inquiry that he had helmed proactively.
