‘Indrani wanted to kill both children’

MUMBAI: Reiterating his earlier stand, Shy am war Rai, the driver who turned approver in the Sheena Bora murder case, told court on Friday that Indrani Mukerjea wanted to kill both Sheena and Mikhail.

Bora was allegedly killed in 2012, but the case came to light in 2015, after Rai’s arrest. Rai is the crucial link in the case which led to the arrest of Indrani Mukerjea, here x-husband Sanjeev Khanna for the murder of Sheena.

Rai has given the police a detailed account of how Indrani, along with Khanna conspired to eliminate Sheena, and how the threeofthemexecutedtheplot.In his confession, Rai said Indrani contacted him towards the end of March 2012. He said Indrani had spoken to him on Skype and revealed her plans to eliminate her two children — Sheena and Mikhail and asked for his help.

He said Indrani wanted to kill both of them because they were maligning her image and threatened to expose the truth that she was their mother and not their sister as she had been claiming.

Ra ia ls os aid Indrani mentioned to him that there are property issues as well and she was against her stepson Rahul’s relationship with Sheena. In one of the statements recorded on September 6, 2015, Rai said on the evening of April 24 2012—the day of the murder — at around 4pm, Indrani asked him to take her to Bandra. “In the car, she told me Sheena had demanded a threebedroom-hall-kitchen, a car and a diamond ring from Mo ti Ma hal. It was only because of this Sheena agreed to meet her, Indrani told me,” reads the statement of Rai.