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Sheena Bora murder case: Police seek bank account details of Mukerjea family

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 04, Sep 2015, 13:50 pm IST | UPDATED: 05, Sep 2015, 11:33 am IST

Sheena Bora murder case: Police seek bank account details of Mukerjea family

Mumbai: Investigations into the sensational Sheena Bora murder case took a new turn with Mumbai police writing to banks to seek details of overseas bank accounts of the Mukerjea family. The police also approached the company registrar in the case.

The police is also seeking details of bank accounts of Mukerjea's in Britain.

The police are also probing financial details obtained from Indrani's husband and former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea. Peter had on Thursday arrived at the Khar police station for questioning along with his CA and had brought bank statements, documents pertaining to the registration of companies and the books of his various companies.

Meanwhile, Indrani Mukerjea, Peter Mukerjea, younger step-daughter Vidhie, who is Indrani's daughter from her previous marriage, and Sanjeev Khanna on Friday reached Khar police station in Mumbai where they all are expected to undergo another round of marathon grilling today even as police tries to crack the intriguing case.

Also, Sheena Bora's biological father Siddharth Das has been quizzed by Mumbai police and his statement recorded in connection with the her murder case, police said on Friday.

Das reached Khar police station at around 8pm on Thursday to join the investigation into the sensational crime committed three years ago and left at about 3am this morning, they said.

Das, who claimed to be Sheena's biological father, was flown down to Mumbai from Kolkata last evening and is understood to have been brought face-to-face with the accused.

Earlier, a police team had reached Das' Kolkata home on Wednesday in order to bring him to Mumbai. His statement has been recorded and his sample taken for a DNA test.

A senior police official said that Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria is likely to brief the media soon on progress of investigation so far.

Indrani has "confessed" to her role in the crime on Thursday, a senior police officer said without providing further details.

Since her arrest late last month, Indrani had been maintaining that Sheena was very much alive and living in US.

Peter has been grilled two times and he was confronted with Indrani and the two other accused. The media baron, who reached Khar Police Station at 11.30am on Thursday, was questioned till late in the evening, police said.

Besides his wife, Peter was brought face-to-face with Sanjeev Khanna, Indrani's former husband and her driver Shyam Rai, both of whom have been arrested, police said.

Peter was also questioned for nearly 12 hours on Wednesday and the questioning went on till late night.