Sheena Bora murder: Peter Mukerjea's ex-colleague is secret witness

The court extended Peter and Indrani Mukerjearsquos custody till Dec 9The identity of secret witness number 11 in the Sheena Bora murder case has been subject to much speculation And on Tuesday it was finally revealed to be Ravina Raj Kohli a former colleague of Peter Mukerjea during his tenure as the CEO of Star TV India Network when following the Bombay high court directive the CBI special court handed over her statement to all the alleged accused in the case Special CBI judge HS Mahajan called in prime accused Indrani Mukerjea her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her present husband Peter Mukerjea to give them the statementsWhat does it sayIn her statement given to the CBI on October 10 2016 Kohli mdash the Chief Operating Officer of Star Entertainment at the time mdash claimed that Indrani was a ldquoschemer manipulator and a dominant personrdquoAlso read Sheena Bora murder case Peter Mukerjea to get secret witness statementIn her fourpage statement she has also said that within media circles Peter and Indrani were nicknamed ldquoBunty and Bablirdquo and that Peter used to tell people that Indrani was his retirement planKohli also claims that ldquoIndrani used to take benefit of Peterrsquos powerful position and his closeness with owners of media organisations to bag HR services contractsrdquo adding that ldquoPeterrsquos 9X Media venture closed not only because of funding problems but because of CEO Indranirsquos inexperience who was appointed since his British citizenship prevented him from holding the top job himselfrdquoSiphoned money to HKKohli also claims she had learnt through sources that Indrani and Peter after selling off 9X Media had siphoned off the money through kickbacks and parked the amount in some unknown bank accounts abroad in HSBC Singapore or Hong Kong mdash one of which was in 2012 and in the name of the deceased BoraCounsel talkHowever Peterrsquos lawyer Mihir Gheewala rubbished the statement and said ldquoThe statement of the secret witness which was revealed today Tuesday is a joke How can a respected agency like CBI depend on a hearsay statement There is nothing concrete in it and it is defaming my client without any evidencerdquoAlso read Sheena Bora murder case Peter Mukerjea gets third time unluckyEven Shreyansh Mithare counsel for Sanjeev Khanna claimed that the statement mdash recorded under Section 161 of the CrPc mdash talks about Peter and Indranirsquos role but does not have any mention of Khannarsquos role in it ldquoWe were thinking that the statement would have some great facts that would make the case strong for CBI But itrsquos just a hearsay statementrdquo said MithareHe added that even in the case of Peter and Indrani there is no direct evidence that the statement points to ldquoShe doesnrsquot have any direct information but she Kohli claims she had heard that they had opened a bank account in Sheenarsquos name This wonrsquot help the CBI muchrdquo said MithareCBI standMeanwhile sources in the CBI claimed that the statement had a lot of details about financial transactions but since the financial aspect of the murder is still being investigated those parts were truncated from the statementFraming of chargesAdditionally the three accused mdash Indrani Khanna and Peter mdash moved court to get the original recorded statements of Peterrsquos son Rahul by the Khar police who first investigated the case along with demanding a verification of all the voice recordings the CBI was going to use while framing the chargesJudge Mahajan has now posted the matter for December 5 where he will decide on the applications along with opening the arguments in the case He also sent Indrani Peter and Khanna to judicial custody till December 9