Although Sanjeev Khanna, Indrani Mukerjea's former husband and key suspect in Mukerjea's daughter, Sheena Bora's murder, confessed to his complicity in the crime on Friday night in a joint interrogation involving him, Mukerjea and her driver, Shyam Rai, he is believed to have hinted at his involvement to a close friend several years ago.


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Kolkata-based realty developer and jute mill owner Ajay Rawla, who Khanna has known for long, said that his friend had rushed to Mumbai in 2012 to meet his daughter Vidhie following a call from his former wife, and Vidhie's mother Mukerjea. On his return to Kolkata, Rawla says, he remembers Khanna as crestfallen.