Peter Mukerjea gets bail in Sheena Bora murder case

Tribune News Service

Mumbai, February 6

Former media executive Peter Mukerjea, who has been in jail since November 2015 in connection with the murder of Sheena Bora, was today granted bail by the Bombay High Court.

While granting bail to Mukerjea on a surety of Rs 2 lakh, Justice Nitin Sambre of the Bombay High Court, however, stayed its order for six weeks to let the CBI file an appeal before the SC.

A number of restrictions have been imposed on Mukerjea as per the bail conditions. Apart from depositing his passport with the CBI, he has been asked not to contact his son Rahul, daughter Vidhi and other witnesses in the case.

While granting bail to Mukerjea, the court observed that the evidence on record did not show prima facie proof of his direct involvement of the crime. Mukerjea’s lawyers had argued that he had no role in the murder of Bora in which his wife Indrani Mukerjea and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna are also accused in the case.

Sheena was allegedly strangled to death in a car on April 24, 2012, after which her body was burnt and dumped in a forest in Raigad, Maharashtra.