The CBI on Tuesday registered a probe into the Sheena Bora murder case. The CBI named Indrani Mukerjea, her first husband Sanjay Khanna and driver Shyam Manohar in its FIR.
A Mumbai court on Saturday had rejected an application moved by Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukherjea and a co-accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, seeking release from jail. Khanna, Indrani and her former driver Shyam Rai are currently in judicial custody.
"The Bandra magistrate's court has rejected our application where we had said Khanna should be released forthwith as he was in illegal detention for a day," said advocate Shreyansh Mithare, his lawyer. Khanna's contention was that though his police custody ended on September 7, he was not produced before a Mumbai court that day but was taken to Kolkata by the police and produced in a court there. Khanna was arrested on August 26. On September 7, when his police remand ended, the police told the court here that he had been taken to Kolkata for the purpose of probe.
This amounted to illegal detention, said the application, but the court rejected it. Mithare said further course of action would be decided after going through the magistrate's order.
Meanwhile, the jail authorities have told the court that Indrani -- who is accused of killing her daughter Sheena three years ago -- was being given quality food in jail and her plea for home food should be rejected as the jail rules don't allow such a facility.
Security concerns was another reason for denying home food, they said.
On September 18, the Maharashtra government had transferred the case to CBI.
"Maharashtra government to handover Sheena Bora murder case to CBI. Government wants the investigations to be done without any prejudice and interference by local police or state government officers," Additional Chief Secretary, Home, KP Bakshi had said.
He had also said that the financial angle in the case cannot be ruled out. "Different angles other than murder in this case, financial angle cannot be ruled out," he had said.
"There is no such thing as a "low or high profile murder". Murder is a murder. There is no link between Rakesh Maria's transfer and Sheena Bora case," Bakshi added.
Earlier, the current Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmed Javed had suggested the case to be transferred to the CBI.
(With PTI inputs)
