Mumbai: City-based advocate Gregory D’Souza, who notarised the Will of Peter Mukerjea and Indrani Mukerjea related to a flat in New Delhi, could not identify the documents in the court on Monday.

Trial Resumes

The trial in the Sheena Bora murder case has resumed on a daily basis and Indrani, the deceased’s mother, is a key accused. As per the said Will, Peter had transferred his half-share to Indrani, who had bequeathed the entire flat in the name of Sheena in September 2004.

The prosecution, on Monday, examined D’Souza, a notary advocate, as its 97th witness. As per the prosecution’s case, Peter and Indrani owned a three bedroomkitchen flat in New Delhi. On September 15, 2004, Peter bequeathed half of his share to Indrani. On the same day, Indrani bequeathed her own share and the share given to her by Peter to Sheena, mentioning her daughter as her “sister”.

These two documents were notarised by D’Souza. The CBI had also claimed that in the register that they had to maintain, there was no signature of Peter Mukerjea and the document only had Indrani’s signature. When questioned about the said discrepancies in 2016, when the case was being investigated, D’Souza could not respond.

On Monday, when he was shown the copies of the Will, he was unable to identify them and claimed that the documents were not the original ones and were just photocopies. It is alleged that after Sheena got engaged to Peter’s son Rahul, Indrani decided to remove her name from the Will. It is also alleged that Sheena had been blackmailing Indrani to give her the flat, threatening to expose their actual relationship.

Indrani’s driver Shyamwar Rai, also an accused, had in his confession claimed that at the time of allegedly killing Sheena, Indrani had allegedly said, “Sheena got her 3BHK flat”. As per the prosecution’s case, Indrani, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna, and driver Shyamwar Rai strangled Sheena in a car on April 24, 2012.

It is alleged that the body was later stuffed in a bag, and kept overnight in the garage and set on fire in Pen Village the next day. The case came to light after the arrest of Rai for carrying an illegal weapon in 2015. During interrogation, Rai revealed the murder plot.