{"id":267106,"date":"2022-05-19T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=267106"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:05:24","slug":"sheena-bora-murder-indrani-mukerjea-bail-supreme-court-india-judgments-legal-law-research-updates-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/19\/sheena-bora-murder-indrani-mukerjea-bail-supreme-court-india-judgments-legal-law-research-updates-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheena Bora murder| Indrani Mukerjea gets bail after being in custody for 6.5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court<\/strong>: The 3-judge bench of L. Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai and AS Bopanna, JJ has granted bail to Indrani Mukerjea, accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora after noticing that \u201ceven if 50% of the remaining witnesses are given up by the prosecution, the trial will not complete soon.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Indrani is charged of kidnapping her daughter with intention to murder and committing murder after entering into a criminal conspiracy. She is the wife of Pratim @ Peter Balram Mukerjea who is co-accused in the case. She is alleged to have committed murder being annoyed by the live in relationship of her daughter, through her earlier husband Sanjeev Khanna with Rahul Mukerjea who is the son of Peter Balram Mukerjea, through his earlier wife-Shabnam Singh.<\/p>\n

Taking into account the fact that Indrani has been in custody for 6\u00bd years and even if 50% of the remaining witnesses are given up by the prosecution, the trial will not complete soon, the Court was of the considered view that she was entitled to be released on bail.<\/p>\n

The Court, hence, directed,<\/p>\n