After 6.5 Years, SC Grants Bail To Indrani Mukherjea In Sheena Bora Murder Case

New Delhi: After spending 6.5 years in jail in Sheena Bora murder case, the Supreme Court (SC) Wednesday granted bail to Indrani Mukherjea.

A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai, and AS Bopanna passed the order in a special leave petition filed against an order passed by the Bombay High Court in November 2021 rejecting her bail plea.

The court opined that she has already undergone 6.5 years in custody and the trial would not end soon. The apex court also noted that the other accused in the case, Peter Mukherjea is already on bail since February 2020.

The court released Indrani on bail subject to all those conditions on which Peter Mukherjea was granted bail.

The Supreme Court bench noted that the case is based on circumstantial evidence and that even if 50% of the witnesses are given up by the prosecution, the trial will go on.

In 2015, Indrani Mukerjea was arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of her daughter Sheena Bora which, however, took place in 2012.

In December last year, Indrani had claimed that her daughter Sheena Bora -- who was killed in 2012 -- is apparently alive and currently in Kashmir.

In her letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation Director, she had contended she met a woman in Byculla Women's Jail who told her that she met her daughter in Kashmir and urged the agency to track her.

Though the CBI didn't react, some reports had suggested what could be a fresh twist to the sensational murder case that erupted six-and-a-half years ago with the arrest of Mukerjeas' driver Shyamvar Rai who had spilled the beans on Sheena Bora's killing.

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