The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Thursday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate accused Peter Mukerjea in a money laundering case registered against him and several others including his estranged wife Indrani Mukerjea. The court has granted them two days time — December 8 and 9 — to interrogate the accused.
A money laundering case was registered against the estranged couple along with Karti Chidambaram and others.
The agency, through its counsel Hiten Venegavkar, approached the court and sought for Peter's custody. He, however, informed the court that on the previous instance when they were interrogating Indrani, they did not get enough time to interrogate as the timings were clashing with CBI, who was also interrogating the two in a cheating case at the same time.
The ED in its application held that it suspects that there were alleged illicit funds generated by Peter and Indrani, which were siphoned off to unknown destinations overseas and routed back to the UK and India through Mauritius-based investors. It is also revealed during the investigation that Rabin Mukerjea (Peter's older son) is handling the funds of Indrani and Peter, which were held in the form of bonds in New Zealand."
Meanwhile, the defence of Indrani was grilling the accused turned approver Shyamwar Rai, where there were discrepancies traced out in the locations which were specified by Rai in his statements while his call data records show different location and that too a before the murder.
The defence according to the CDR, showed that Rai was at Vashi, but Rai in his statement had claimed that he was at Dadar.
