Court turns down CBI, allows Peter Mukerjea to receive food from home

Mumbai: A magistrate’s court on Friday allowed former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case, to be served home food in his jail cell at Arthur Road prison. “Permission is granted to provide home food to accused (Peter) in jail under proper supervision of jail superintendent,” Magistrate RV Adone said while allowing the plea moved by Mukerjea earlier this week through his lawyer Kushal Mor. [caption id=“attachment_2526886” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Peter Mukerjea in a file photo. Ibnlive[/caption] Mukerjea had requested that he be allowed to get home food as he is a “senior citizen with heart ailments and is on medication to lower his cholesterol”. Apart from CBI, the jail officials had also opposed Mukerjea’s plea saying they can provide less spicy and less oily food for him. Mukerjea (59), husband of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, was arrested on 19 November for his alleged role in the murder conspiracy and has been in CBI custody. Indrani (43), her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her ex-driver Shyamvar Rai were already chargesheeted in the case. Peter Mukerjea has been kept at the high-security jail where Khanna and Rai are also lodged. In 2012, Sheena (24), Indrani’s daughter from a previous relationship, was allegedly strangled in a car by Indrani and Khanna, and her body was burnt and dumped in a forest in Raigad, about 84 kms from Mumbai. CBI has maintained that the murder could be the fallout of some financial transactions. The agency had said that Peter Mukerjea, during his interrogation, disclosed investment of crores of rupees made by him and Indrani abroad. The agency is expecting information from Interpol on the details of an account opened by Indrani in a bank in Hong Kong. PTI