Sheena murder: Call records place Indrani in Pen when body was dumped

The police are steadily tying up the loose ends in the highprofile Sheena Bora murder case in which two major developments have emerged ndash not only have the DNA reports confirmed that the bones recovered from Pen Raigad are Sheenarsquos remains but cops also revealed that call records place Indrani Mukerjea ndash Sheenarsquos mother accused in the murder mdash in Pen at the same time that the body is suspected to have been dumped there in April 2012 Mumbai Police see both these developments as essential evidence that will strengthen their case in courtSheena murder Skeletal remains found in Raigad match Indrani and Mikhails DNAIndrani Mukerjea was produced at Bandra Metropolitan Magistratersquos court on Monday when she was sent to judicial custody PicPTITracking IndraniThe first person to be arrested in the 2012 murder case was Shyam Rai who worked as Indranirsquos driver He had confessed to Sheenarsquos murder and also told cops when and where he Indrani and the third accused Sanjeev Khanna Indranirsquos exhusband dumped her body in Pen on April 25 2012These details have now been corroborated by Indranirsquos mobile phone records In fact Indranirsquos call detail record CDR perfectly corroborates the murder sequence that the cops have laid out so far ldquoAfter learning the exact dates and timing of the murder and the disposal of the body we went through the call details of Indrani We looked up who had called her sent her text messagesSheena murder case Indrani driver sent to judicial custody for 14 daysThe most important thing we learnt was the location of Indranirsquos mobile phone The records show that her phone was in the jungle area in Raigad at the same time that the body was dumped thererdquo said a cop from Khar police station ldquoHer location matched the murder sequence exactly most crucially in the Raigad jungle which Indrani cannot denyFrom the evening when Sheena was picked up and murdered in the car till the next day when her body was taken to Raigad in the wee hours all locations match with that of Indranirsquos phone This is a crucial piece of evidencerdquo the official addedDNA confirmedAfter a frenetic search for DNA samples from Sheenarsquos remains a forensic team was sent along with the Mumbai Police to Gagode Budruk village in Pen where the driver Shyam said the body had been dumped midday reported how the team found skeletal remains on Aug 28 over three years after the incident thanks to a local who remembered where the spot was lsquoCops find remains at crime scene thanks to Police Patilrsquo August 29Sheena murder Cops reconstruct crime in Indrani Mukerjeas presenceThe police had recovered almost the entire skeleton from the crime scene It was eventually the thigh bone that helped to match the remains with Sheenarsquos DNA ldquoThe DNA has matched and the report was given to Mumbai Police on Monday afternoonrdquo confirmed Satish Mathur director general legal and technical the staterun Forensic Science Laboratory FSL in Kalina which carried out the testsAn official from FSL said ldquoMumbai police had asked for the DNA report on an urgent basis Our five forensic experts worked on the case on a priority basis Indranirsquos blood samples were taken samples were also taken from Mikhail Sheenarsquos brotherrdquoldquoThe most important body parts for DNA are the teeth or the thigh bone In the case we had thigh bone of the body recovered from Raigad However as it was three years old we had to do a lot of work on the bone Even after the DNA matched we did several retests to crosscheck the results Only after the final confirmation was the report maderdquo the official added