Sheena Bora: All you need to know about Indrani Mukerjea's daughter

The gruesome murder of 24-year-old Sheena Bora, allegedly  by her mother Indrani Mukerjea, media honcho Peter Mukerjea’s wife, has gripped the nation. While the police is still trying to find the motive for the murder, there are numerous theories doing the rounds in the media from money to property to ‘honour killing’ as being the motive. But there are some facts that are undisputable. Here are the facts we know so far about Sheena Bora.
 
Name: Sheena Bora
Date of birth: February 11, 1989
Mother: Indrani Mukerjea (Peter Mukerjea’s wife)
Younger Brother: Mikhail Bora
Boyfriend: Rahul Mukerjea – Peter Mukerjea’s son from a previous marriage
Maternal Grandfather: Upendra Kumar Bora
Maternal Grandmother: Durga Rani Bora
 
Sheena’s childhood in Shillong

Sheena’s birth certificate mentions her maternal grandparents as her father and mother but her grandfather denies this claim stating Siddharth Das was her father. She lived in Shillong with her maternal grandparents and younger brother during her school years. Her younger brother, Mikhail, has stated to media that the two had a difficult childhood and that their mother had ‘abandoned’ them.
 
When Indrani got married to Peter

Sheena was introduced to Peter Mukerjea by Indrani as her sister when they got married. She and Mikhail were allegedly threatened by Indrani not to reveal that they were her children and that she would stop any financial assistance to them. Indrani brought her to Mumbai after she finished school in Shillong.

Sheena joined Economics Honours course at St Xavier's College in Mumbai in 2006. Peter Mukerjea says he got her admission in the college. She lived with Peter and Indrani for a while and visited them periodically when she moved out to a PG. Sheena allegedly mentioned a boyfriend to some friends at college but was uncomfortable talking about him. She also met her step-brother Rahul Mukerjea at the Mukerjeas and the two fell in love.

They started living together. Indrani strongly disapproved of this relationship. The last time Sheena visited her grandparents in Shillong was in 2012, two months before she disappeared. She had gone to Shillong to attend a friend’s wedding, according to her brother Mikhail.

Sheena’s gruesome murder on April 24, 2012 - The Facts 

According to the driver Shyam Manohar Rai, on April 23, Indrani went for a recce drive to Gagode village near Pen-Khopoli Road, Mumbai. She made a call to her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna post the recce. On April 24, Indrani booked a room Worli Hill Top hotel in Mumbai. Sanjeev Khanna arrived from Kolkata.  Indrani, Sanjeev and Shyam Rai picked up Sheena near National College at Linking Road in Bandra.

Sanjeev and Indrani allegedly strangulated Sheena with her dupatta and the body was put in a bag in the car boot. On April 25 around 4 pm, the three allegedly, went to burn and dispose Sheena’s body near Gagode Budruk Village in Pen taluka in Raigad district.

 
Post Indrani Mukerjea’s arrest for Sheena’s murder on August 26, 2015 -- The Facts 

Sheena was, in fact, Indrani’s daughter and not sister as she had claimed earlier.  Indrani and Sheena used to have fights and because their conversations were in Assamese, Peter Mukerjea states that he didn’t understand them.  Sheena joined Reliance ADAG as a management trainee in 2011.  According to her LinkedIn profile, she was still employed at Reliance ADAG when she disappeared in 2012. Sheena was not seen after April 2012. She was 24 years old when she disappeared. Indrani had stated to her family and friends that she had moved to the United States in 2012 to pursue her career.