Sheena Bora case: Where's the medical evidence, asks Indrani's lawyer

On Saturday afternoon Mumbai Police made a plea before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SM Chandgade at the Bandra Magistrate Court asking that the police custody of the three accused in the Sheena Bora murder case investigation mdash Indrani Mukerjea her exhusband Sanjeev Khanna and Indranirsquos former driver Shyamwar Rai mdash be extended till September 7 The accused were arrested between August 25 and August 29 for the 2012 murder of Sheena Indranirsquos daughterAlso read Sheena Bora murder Indrani Mukerjea confesses to role in crimeIndrani Mukerjea was produced in Bandra Court yesterday PicPradeep DhivarSpeaking against the plea Indranirsquos lawyer Gunjan Mangla arguing for judicial custody told the court ldquoItrsquos been 12 days and 200 hours of investigation She has been taken to all the places for investigation and has also been confronted with other accused Too much time has been given for investigation Till date what evidence do they have that ties down Indrani as an accused No medical reports have been filed Therefore Indrani should be granted judicial custodyrdquoThe defence accused the police of ldquoconducting a media trial and prejudicing the proceedingsrdquo Indrani is not a hardened criminal said her lawyer ldquoThere is no medical evidence Two days of police custody is a humiliation of my client Accounts cannot be recovered from my client She is in custody They have to recover it from bankersrdquo he addedAlso read Sheena Bora murder Police custody of accused extended till September 7However arguing for the police Public Prosecutor Vaibhav Bagade said that after murdering Sheena Indrani created fake email IDs to mail people from it making them believe that Sheena was in the US and safe The police who wants to access these emails wants extended time to investigate this aspect Bagade added that the police also wants to investigate why the trio mdash believed to have murdered Sheena on April 24 2012 and then dumped her partially burnt body in a Raigad forest the next day mdash selected Pen as the dumping site The investigators also want to recover a few more items used during the crime along with the credit card that Indrani is believed to have used to purchase themIn addition Bagade said that Indrani had not confessed to the murder having denied it altogether and was not cooperating with the policeArguing for extended police custody of all three accused Bagade said that operating a fake email ID and disposing the body could not have been done by one person alone and that itrsquos possible that more were involved in the crime something that the police wants to investigate Bagade told the court ldquoThe police has not wasted a single day while the accused were in custody Considering the vastness of the case we need more time to investigate Therefore we want police custodyrdquoKhannarsquos advocate Shreyansh Mithare who argued that the police didnrsquot need his clientrsquos custody for further investigations told sunday midday ldquoWhen I met Khanna for the five mintues granted by court he told me that he hasnrsquot confessed to any crime Police have also randomly taken Khannarsquos signatures on a few papers with something written in Marathi on themrdquoOn Saturday 12 days after his arrest Indranirsquos former driver Shyamvar Rai finally engaged a lawyer No one had represented him at the earlier hearings Police on Saturday also maintained that it had not yet given a ldquoclean chitrdquo to former media baron Peter Mukerjea mdash Indranirsquos husband mdash in the case The court granted police the custody of all three accusedAlso read Sheena Bora murder Will fake emails to Peter help him get a clean chitMeanwhile cops detained Indranirsquos bodyguard from Kolkata for questioning mdash a likely fourth arrest in the case They suspect he helped the other three accused dump Sheenarsquos body in Pen Raigad ldquoWe havenrsquot arrested him yet He had left his job and settled in Kolkatardquo an officer said Mumbai police teams have been posted in Delhi Kolkata and Guwahati to pick up suspects quickly mdash WITH INPUTS fromvinay dalvi and agencies