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New Delhi: Indrani Mukherjea, accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, has alleged that she was assaulted in jail.
Indrani claimed that she sustained injuries on her hands, legs and head after she was assaulted for making statements against jail authorities in connection with the custodial death.
The allegations were presented before a special CBI court on Tuesday by Indrani’s lawyer who requested the court to see her before the next hearing in the case to record the extent of her injuries.
The next hearing in the Sheena Bora case was scheduled for July 4th but Indrani’s lawyer claimed that her injuries may heal by then. Following the submission, the court asked that Indrani should be produced before the sessions court on Wednesday.
This comes after Indrani was booked among 200-odd jail inmates booked for rioting, destruction of property and causing injury to prison staff in Mumbai’s Byculla jail. The inmates were protesting against the death of a 45-year-old woman prisoner, Manjura Shetye, who was allegedly beaten to death last week.
Shetye died at the government-run JJ Hospital on Friday night after allegedly being beaten up by a woman prison official. Subsequently, six jail staffers were placed under suspension and on Sunday police registered a case under IPC Section 302 (punishment for murder) against them.
Indrani, her husband and former media baron Peter Mukerjea and ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna have been accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, whom she had passed off as her sister for several years. All the three accused are in judicial custody.
While Sheena was killed on April 24, 2012, the case came to light only in 2015 after Indrani’s driver Shyamwar Rai was arrested in an arms case.
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