Peter Mukerjea's CBI custody ends on Monday
A lie detector test will be conducted on former media executive Peter Mukerjea, arrested in connection with the murder case of his step-daughter Sheena Bora, by the CBI in a couple of days.
The agency wants to complete the lie detector test in a couple of days as Mr Mukerjea's CBI custody ends on Monday, sources said.
The agency will have to produce Peter Mukerjea before a special court in Mumbai on Monday which has given it his custody.
CBI sources said Mr Mukerjea was questioned in Delhi today for nearly six hours with the questioning focussed on whether funds allegedly siphoned off from the media house founded by him and Indrani Mukerjea were parked in an overseas account of Sheena Bora resulted in a dispute between Indrani and her daughter.
They said the agency confronted Peter Mukerjea with the Income Tax returns filed by him and Indrani to ascertain their various investments in India and abroad.
The sources, however, clarified that at this stage it is difficult to nail any one possible motive behind Sheena Bora's murder and the agency is working on a number of different angles which might have triggered the crime.
Sheena Bora, Indrani's daughter from an earlier marriage, was allegedly killed by her mother, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai in April 2012.
While seeking custody of Peter Mukerjea from Mumbai special court, the CBI claimed yesterday that he has told the agency that accounts might have been opened in the name of Sheena by Indrani Mukerjea in banks in Hong Kong and Singapore.
According to the CBI, the couple's company 9X Media Pvt Ltd carried out its internal audit in which nine companies having shareholding as on March 2009 were found to have instances of misallocation and siphoning of substantial amounts of funds by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea.
The CBI, represented by Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, also told the court that the "money siphoned off from INX (in which Peter and Indrani were partners) dealings was routed to Sheena Bora's HSBC account in Singapore."
The reports of Serious Fraud Investigation Office and Income Tax and documents of chartered accountants substantiate the above facts, the CBI said while seeking Peter's remand.