Bombay High Court grants bail to Peter Mukerjea

SHEENA BORA MURDER CASE

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea, an accused arrested in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, on grounds that there was no prima facie evidence of his involvement in the crime.

Following a request by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the High Court stayed the implementation of its order for six weeks to enable the CBI to file an appeal in the matter.

Earlier, Justice Nitin W. Sambre granted bail on a surety of Rs 200,000 to Mukerjea who was arrested over four years ago and was in jail since barring release briefly on medical grounds.

In his order, Justice Sambre said there was no prima facie evidence to infer that Peter Mukerjea was involved in committing the crime since he was not in India at that point.

The judge also observed that the trial in the case is already on, the applicant has spent more than four years in jail and recently underwent bypass surgery.

In the conditional bail, the court ordered Peter Mukerjea not to contact his daughter Vidhi, son Rahul or any other witnesses in the case, nor travel abroad without its permission. Mukerjea, 64, was arrested on November 19, 2015, from his residence in Mumbai.

His arrest came hours after the CBI had filed its charge sheet against his (then) wife, Indrani Mukerjea alias Bora, her first husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyamvar P. Rai. (IANS)

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