Mumbai: In a breakthrough in the Sheena Bora murder case, a central forensic team has confirmed that the remains found in Raigad forest near Mumbai are of the 24-year-old.
Sheena was allegedly murdered by her other Indrani Mukherjea and two others.
The Mumbai police had, in September, said that DNA tests proved that the remains, a skull and bone pieces, were of Sheena. The case was then handed over to the CBI, which asked for forensic tests by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi.
Sources say that three tests were conducted by the AIIMS forensic department to prove that the charred remains were that of Sheena’s. In a DNA test, Indrani Mukerjea’s blood sample matched with the protein extract from Sheena’s bone. 3D imaging provided conclusive proof. Another test proved that Bora was around five feet three inches tall, and the “possible or probable cause of death” is strangling.
On August 28, the police exhumed the remains of a body after a tip-off from Indrani Mukerjea’s driver, who was allegedly involved in the murder and who had been arrested for a different crime. The police claim Mukerjea, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver strangled Sheena, and then kept her body overnight at the home she shares with her husband, TV tycoon Peter Mukerjea, before driving it to Raigad the next morning where it was set on fire.
Sheena Bora was last seen alive in April 2012.
