Sheena Bora murder trial resumes with hostile witness

Mumbai: The first day of the day-to-day trial in the 2015 Sheena Bora murder case commenced with the 97th witness, a lawyer and notary, being declared hostile after he refused to identify documents on the grounds that they were photocopied and not the original.
The witness, who notarised wills purportedly executed by accused Indrani and Peter Mukerjea, could not state whether Peter had signed the documents in his presence. Indrani's will was executed in favour of Bora. The property was a three-bedroom flat in Delhi.
The trial, which first commenced in 2017, was stalled for four months following the transfer of the earlier judge. On Friday, special judge J P Darekar informed the prosecution and the defence team that the trial in the case will resume on a daily basis from March 10, based on directions from the Bombay high court.
Indrani, the biological mother of Bora, is the prime accused in the case, along with co-accused Sanjeev Khanna and Peter Mukerjea. Mukerjea's driver, Shyamwar Rai, a former co-accused, turned approver in the case.