FILE: Indrani Mukerjea with her husband and former Star India chief Peter Mukerjea.
After oscillating between acknowledging that she killed her daughter and insisting that she's still alive and living in the US, Indrani Mukerjea has once again told top police officers that she murdered Sheena Bora, say source.
For the second day in a row, Ms Mukerjea, a former media executive, was brought face-to-face with husband Peter Mukerjea at a police station. Mr Mukerjea has reportedly been asked if he hired the car in which Ms Bora was killed on April 24, 2012.
The police says the car, with the body in the boot, was parked that night in the garage of the Mukerjea residence. The next morning, the police says, the corpse was set on fire in a forest on the outskirts of Mumbai.
On that day, Mr Mukerjea was abroad in the UK. He was interrogated for over 12 hours yesterday about the financial dealings of his wife, said police sources.
A confession made by Ms Mukerjea to the police cannot be used against her in court.
Ms Bora died when she was 24; during her lifetime, she was presented by her mother as a younger sister, a claim Mr Mukerjea has said he chose to believe despite reports to the contrary.
The young woman was engaged to step-brother Rahul, Mr Mukerjea's son from an earlier marriage. The relationship did not sit well with the family, Mr Mukerjea has ceded in interviews.
Along with Ms Mukerjea, her driver and her former husband, Sanjeev Khanna, a Kolkata businessman, have been arrested. The men, the police says, have confessed to the crime.
Police sources say the investigation is looking at whether Ms Mukerjea and Ms Bora were caught in a fierce financial dispute.
The Mukerjeas reportedly came into considerable wealth when they sold their stake in a broadcasting group in 2009 two years after founding it. There were allegations at the time of embezzlement routed through proxy firms.