Court allows ID parade of all three accused in Sheena case

Mumbai: The police investigating the Sheena Bora murder case filed an application before a magistrate court on Friday stating that it wanted to conduct the test identification parade of the three accused with respect to some witnesses. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate S M Chandgade allowed the application filed by investigating officer Dinesh Kadam.Kadam did not disclose the identity of the witnesses in open court. The trio, Sheena’s mother Indrani Mukerjea, Mukerjea’s ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai are in judicial custody until Monday. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate S M Chandgade allowed the application filed by investigating officer Dinesh Kadam, who did not disclose the identity of the witnesses in open court.
When the three were in police custody, the cops had said they had recorded the statements of several witnesses whose names had cropped up during interrogation. Among them are the persons from whom the accused had purchased 10 litres of petrol used to burn Sheena’s body in Raigad, and the suitcase in which her body was stuffed before being dumped.
On Saturday, the same court will pass an order on a plea by Khanna’s lawyer about his alleged illegal detention on September 7. On that day, Mukerjea and Rai were produced before court as their police custody had end-ed, but Khanna was taken to Kolkata. He was produced before the magistrate the following day. That day the court will also hear a plea by Mukerjea’s lawyer seeking time to meet her in jail.