[ominous music playing]
Yeah. What... What has happened? What has happened to Sheena?
As far as I'm concerned, what has happened to Sheena
is that she has gone of her own accord somewhere
and she doesn't want to be in touch with anybody right now.
[Rahul] Right.
[Peter] That is my... That is my understanding.
Now you can go turning the whole world upside down.
Go right around finding out, you know:
Who? Where? What? This? That?
You might find some clues, and you might find Sheena, fine.
Now after you have done your search and this and that, and you don't find her
because she has covered her trails nicely, then what happens?
-[Rahul] But Papa... -[Peter] And, where does it...
where does it lead to?
[Rahul] You see, Indrani was the last person to see her, okay?
I know my mother, and back then, she could be scary.
She could be mean.
She could sometimes be a little violent.
She could be things that any other person would be,
but she's not... [scoffs] Let me tell you one thing,
she's also the smartest woman in the world that I know.
[camera shutter clicks]
My parents were just both such overachievers.
Indrani and Peter, in their days, they were really the power couple.
They were in front of every newspaper back then.
My mom came to Bombay, and she started from nothing...
and really built her way up.
[host] Mrs. Indrani Mukerjea, the CEO of INX Media.
[audience applauding]
[Vidhie] There was the glam, there was the beauty,
there were the cars, the houses...
they would take the families on holidays.
When I was introduced to my mom's sister, Sheena,
I was very young.
I never called her, you know, "Auntie."
It was just... just Sheena.
She is this... gorgeous, stunning,
kind of, very eclectic, intelligent woman. I still remember that.
I found it extremely strange from 2012,
there was like, suddenly no contact.
When people were asking, like, "Where is Sheena? Where is Sheena?"
My mom would go into kind of a fit.
My mom told me Sheena was at the US, and I asked her a couple of times.
It was just understood that, okay, she's moved to LA
and she's doing her own thing there.
I think after a while, you know, this is where I find it so weird
and I'm still not able to understand this, is...
no one asked about Sheena after, like, a certain point.
Like, Sheena was just not...
brought up ever by anyone.
Like, at all.
It's, like, almost like a spell was cast over us to forget Shee...
Sheena even existed.
[dramatic music playing]
[birds squawking]
When I reached home on the 25th of August right after school.
Oh God, the whole house had kind of turned upside down.
There were just so many cops everywhere.
It was just so foreign, the concept of cops in our house.
Anything to do with police was just so foreign to me.
Then I started to get really angry with the police
rummaging through our stuff, you know,
I'm like, "What the fuck is going on?"
My mom told me to calm down.
One of the cops, he asked the house help whether she knew Sheena.
I went straight to my mom and I asked her, like...
"Mom, what is this about Sheena?"
And she just looked at me...
and, you know, before she could answer,
the cop was just like,
"You can't talk."
My mom gets arrested.
I don't see her after that at all.
[dramatic music playing]
[news anchor] Breaking news just coming in!
Media tycoon Indrani Mukerjea
has been arrested by the Mumbai police
on charges of murdering her sister almost three years ago.
[man] I got a call from Peter.
"Indrani has just been arrested, on charges of murder."
I was so close to her. I had no idea.
I switched on the TV and there's Sheena's photo.
We were speechless.
What the hell happened?
[news anchor] It's a case that has confused, fascinated
and shocked us all.
This was a case where almost every day,
there was a new revelation coming out.
[woman] The family themselves, they are leaking a story a minute.
[man] Every smile, every hug, was fake for us.
To show the world we are all good.
[reporter] Rahul... Rahul, listen... Rahul, don't run.
[man] The dynamics of the relationships...
What... what kind of family is this?
[reporter] As you can imagine, there's a lot of shockwaves
going through Mumbai high society.
The story kept ratcheting up higher and higher.
[intense music playing]
One set of powerful people wanted to dump the case.
Another set of powerful people want to expose the case.
[man] What is the precise motive
that could have led Indrani to kill Sheena
in cold-blooded murder?
Do I believe someone within the family knows what's happened to Sheena?
Absolutely. I believe there's more than one person.
[theme music playing]
[theme music concludes]
[dramatic music playing]
I was bringing home some material from Varsai.
On the way back,
I saw that a mango fell from the tree, so I stopped the tempo on the side.
I smelled something.
It was a very foul smell, so I searched for the source of it.
There was a hand with nails.
The nails were painted with nail polish,
and the ground near it showed signs of being burned.
Then I called the police station.
They collected bones and some remains.
From the spot where the body was found,
we dug a pit under a tree ten to 12 feet away from it
and we buried it in the pit.
In 2012, the dead body clearly showed
that it was a case of murder and foul play.
The moment there is a report that an unnatural death has taken place,
police have got no option but to at least register
an accidental death report.
So in this case, it's really very, very shocking...
the police did not register the accidental death report,
did not register the murder, did not investigate the case.
There was someone very, very powerful behind it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Vidhie] When my mom was arrested,
my connection with her was completely cut off.
I just remember my father being ever so confused with what's happening.
He was very much there for me as a support at that point.
But in a house full of people,
from my dad's side of the family,
very... instantly ready to, kind of...
believe that she has done this and you know, "How could she do this?"
And everyone's... Sure, everyone is equally as shocked
and everyone is straight up, like, "What the fuck is going on?"
But rather than sitting down and trying to figure what's going on,
everyone's mind was made up.
[reporters clamoring]
[Sahil] I got a call from one of my reporter that,
"The police, they have arrested somebody called Indrani Mukerjea."
Then it suddenly struck me that, okay, Indrani Mukerjea is...
that Indrani Mukerjea. You know?
[reporters clamoring]
The first day, I remember,
all the channels ran that Indrani Mukerjea killed her sister,
which was believable. You know, that happens.
The brother killing brother, sister killing sister. That happens.
But how could she manage to hide it for three years?
This happened in 2012, she's been arrested in 2015.
How could she manage to do that?
[reporter] Sources tell India Today that the matter came to light
after an informer tipped off the police
about Indrani Mukerjea's alleged role in murdering her sister,
in connivance with her driver.
Now the police grilled Indrani's driver, Shyamvar Rai for hours,
after which he confessed to the crime.
After this crucial admission, the cops summoned Indrani Mukerjea
and grilled her for three-and-a-half hours yesterday,
eventually arresting her.
[tense music playing]
This entire case against Indrani Mukerjea
is built on the confessions that had been given,
the testimony of Shyamvar Rai.
The driver, who was employed by Indrani Mukerjea herself.
[Dattatraya] I did my service in the police department for 35 years.
When a person comes before the police, there's a fear factor.
And...
it's human nature
that if someone goes in front of the police,
then that person is frightened.
Shyamvar Rai, he disclosed that in the year 2012,
he, along with Indrani Mukerjea...
had murdered Sheena Bora.
[suspenseful music playing]
It's not a complicated case. It's a simple murder case.
[Sahil] Even today, I think that in the beginning,
Mumbai police also did not get the enormity of the case.
They just thought it was going to be a very juicy case for the media.
"We have managed to crack the case after three years."
"So we are going to get a pat on our back."
That's it.
The next day, we started getting information
that police teams have gone to Calcutta,
to Guwahati.
Then we realized that there might be more accused
involved in the case as well.
[suspenseful music playing]
[news anchor 1] The latest that's coming in from Kolkata.
Indrani Mukerjea, her second husband Sanjeev Khanna,
has now been just arrested.
[news anchor 2] The police are suspecting him
to be one of the co-conspirators.
As per sources, he was in the car along with Indrani and Shyamvar Rai
on the 24th of April 2012,
when Indrani picked up Sheena from outside the college,
and he, apparently, had helped Indrani kill Sheena.
So that's the allegation against him.
[reporter] Mr. Khanna! Do you... Do you agree to the allegations?
[news anchor] Details of Sanjeev's statement,
Indrani's ex-husband confirmed that Sheena was strangled and killed.
But he claims he was in the car, but he slept through the entire murder.
[news anchor 2] What's surprising is,
you know, the involvement of Sanjeev Khanna,
who is the ex-husband of Indrani Mukerjea, and they also have a daughter, Vidhie.
[Vidhie] The only person I cannot fit into this puzzle
is Sanjeev, my biological father.
He really seems like the anomaly in this whole thing.
He had really nothing to do with anything, any of us,
apart from just being my father.
That's it!
[dramatic music playing]
[birds squawking]
I am the daughter of Indrani Mukerjea, Peter Mukerjea and Sanjeev Khanna...
My father, Peter, he adopted me legally.
But not many people in the world are fortunate enough
to say they have three parents.
Whilst ironically also three of my parents got taken away from me
and, you know, they were all... all of them, in prison.
[news anchor] Breaking news just coming in.
Media tycoon Indrani Mukerjea...
Sheena Bora... [continues indistinctly]
[Vidhie] I can't believe my name is associated...
Me, Vidhie Mukerjea, is associated with, you know, the word "murder."
When I even say my name, Vidhie Mukerjea, my...
instantly my thought goes to... murder, like, this case, Sheena Bora case.
When it first came out, it was a pretty airtight story.
Everyone got excited by the fact that,
you know, it seemed like a saucy enough story that,
"Yeah, we've got the wife, we've got the ex-husband,
we've got the driver." I mean, it...
it makes the perfect montage, you know!
It's the... It's the next bestseller.
Makes a great movie, sure. But this is a real story.
It's not as black and white as that.
[Rajdeep] You see, until the Sheena Bora murder case happened,
we knew Indrani Mukerjea
purely through the lens of being Peter's wife
and being this ambitious corporate media baroness.
Indrani, as per the police version, killed Sheena in cold-blooded murder.
The focus has been to find out "Why?"
[indistinct chatter]
It becomes about finding her backstory.
Let's go and find out "Where did life start for Indrani Mukerjea?"
"Who is Indrani Mukerjea?"
So, I think a lot of time was spent in going and meeting people
who knew both Sheena, and who knew Indrani.
[indistinct chatter]
[news anchor] One of the crucial players in this
is Indrani Mukerjea's brother, Mekhail Bora.
My name is Mekhail Bora.
I am the brother of late Sheena Bora.
This is my home,
where me and Sheena was born.
And... Also you can say,
this is the same place where Indrani was born.
At that point,
when I saw it in the news,
Indrani has murdered Sheena...
And I was like... [exhales sharply]
dumbstruck at that moment.
I was, like, completely, you know, frozen, you can say.
[news anchor] Indrani Mukerjea has been arrested by the Mumbai police.
[news anchor 2] ...for her alleged involvement
in the murder of her own sister.
[news anchor 3] ...arrested for murdering her sister.
[reporter] Just a second. We just need two minutes.
Not now. No comments, no comments. Sorry.
[Mekhail] I didn't know what to say at the initial stage.
It was a chaotic situation at that time because one of the media person asked...
"Sheena Bora's elder sister murdered her?"
That thing struck in my mind.
If false news is being broadcast in the beginning,
everyone should know what the truth is.
[indistinct chatter]
I can provide evidence to the Mumbai Police that can prove clearly
that Sheena is Indrani's daughter, not her sister, and I am her son.
[Rajdeep] The biggest twist in this case is now this,
that Sheena, who till yesterday we thought was Indrani's sister,
has turned out to be her daughter.
She is been accused of duping everyone she knows...
[tense music playing]
[Rajdeep] Look, I remember breaking the Sheena Bora case story
on air at the time.
And, uh... I'm not just a news anchor, I'm a parent.
So when you hear as a parent, not just as a newsman, that...
Sheena is the daughter of Indrani,
and Indrani has killed her own daughter...
you suddenly wonder, "What the fuck?"
The events that are unfolding are so shocking
that people just don't know what to make of it.
There cannot be a lower life state than this.
Indrani as a mother... unbelievably nasty.
I think for us, what was the most, um... startling thing about it?
And that is something that you have to understand
about us as... as a country, and as a culture.
There is a certain expectation you have of the mother figure in India.
It's deeply, deeply ingrained in our culture, I think.
It's deeply ingrained in our dominant religion.
The country is about the mother, it's Mother India.
Everything is about the mother.
The fact that someone who was a mother
could possibly commit this murder and kill her own daughter
is unimaginable.
[news anchor] The Mumbai police commissioner has confirmed
that Sheena was Indrani Mukerjea's daughter
from an unknown previous relationship.
Then they got to know that she's a daughter from the first husband.
And nobody knew who that guy was.
Sheena Bora's murder mystery is embroiled
amidst complicated relationships.
Who's married to whom and who sired the child
are puzzling Mumbai Police to no end.
From my very childhood till I was 15,
there was totally, uh... no contact at all with Indrani.
Giving birth to children
and then leaving them behind is not how it is done.
She wanted to wipe out her past.
She has hidden the fact that we are her children from Peter,
and even Vidhie.
Big revelations on the Sheena murder case.
Peter Mukerjea has spoken with India Today,
and he's told us that he knew Sheena as Indrani's sister.
[reporter] Peter, Peter!
My son, at one point who was in a relationship with Sheena,
had said to me that, you know, "Sheena... This is not correct."
"She is not her sister, she is her daughter."
But I dismissed that at the time,
because I didn't think that that was true, and I said,
"Look, my Indrani has told me that that is not so."
And I obviously believed my wife.
So, I continued to maintain that,
so much so that it caused a rift between me and my son as a consequence.
[reporter] Very rarely would you come across
such a complex set of relationships,
where the son of the current husband
is seeing the daughter of Indrani's previous marriage.
[Sahil] Peter Mukerjea, Peter's first wife, two sons.
Rahul Mukerjea. He stays here.
Then there is Indrani Mukerjea, who has three husbands,
two former husbands, all of them alive.
Second husband involved in killing.
His daughter is now daughter of Peter Mukerjea.
The first husband, his daughter is Sheena Bora.
She gets involved with Rahul Mukerjea.
So... Peter's son, Indrani's daughter, are involved.
This is something very interesting for the Indian audiences.
There is no Kardashian family here in India, right?
[reporter] Was this the reason,
the proximity between Rahul and Sheena,
that led to the murder?
[Sahil] Both Indrani and Peter were against this relationship
between Rahul and Sheena.
[Vidhie] Things were, like, very bad then.
Sheena and Rahul had kind of broken off from the rest of the family
because they were like, "We want to do our thing."
My mom and Sheena were just at a horrible place.
They were having so many fights. Um...
A lot of nasty, nasty words exchanged between everyone.
Rahul had been asking Indrani and Peter
as to, "Why is it that Sheena has not returned
after meeting Indrani?"
He kept calling up Indrani, he kept calling Peter to know,
and according to Rahul, she kept changing her stand.
That's something Rahul had, you know, got suspicious about
and that is the reason why he has recorded these conversations.
Papa, listen, it's not just me, okay? It's not just me.
All of her friends, right? Her Facebook, her internet, her work.
They... People from her work have come home looking for her
saying that she is very conscientious at work.
She's never missed a day. In three years,
she's never missed a day without informing.
Now she's been... She's been gone for more than two or three days,
and she hasn't informed anyone.
This is why it's out of character.
Can you hear what I'm saying and take it in?
[news anchor] When Rahul tried to reach Sheena through Indrani,
she told him that Sheena had left India,
and did not want to speak to him.
Rahul was really surprised because, according to police,
he claimed that he had Sheena's passport.
So how could Sheena leave the country?
My suggestion to you, and it is only a suggestion,
advice to you, guidance.
That is to say, if that is what it is, leave it alone.
She'll come back when she wants to come back.
If she hasn't been in touch with anybody
and she's gone off and, you know, wants to be...
wants to be... wants to be in hiding,
she wants to go off with somebody... Maybe she's gone off with somebody.
Maybe that somebody is an imaginary person,
I don't know. I don't... Whatever it is.
That is her lookout, right?
Her choice.
[Sahil] Rightly, by the media, and even in the police,
everybody had this question in mind,
that if Indrani has done this,
how could Peter not have any idea about it?
Why didn't he trust his own son
when Rahul Mukerjea was desperately trying to make him believe
that Indrani's lying?
[Rahul] Why am I being... Why am I being pinpointed in for something again?
I haven't done anything. I haven't withheld anything from anyone.
All I'm trying to do is find my bloody fiancée,
who someone picked up and moved!
God knows where and God knows what situation she's in.
[Peter] Well, uh...
[Rahul] You're picking on me for not...
you know, telling you that I was sitting talking to her bloody boss?
Where the hell is she?
[Peter] Where is she... You tell me.
[Rahul] You tell me, man.
[Rajdeep] Now, why would you, as a parent, as a father,
not be worried that your son is so traumatized that his fiancée...
is missing and missing for three years?
I mean, the real question to ask in this case is,
"What did the family members, all of them, do for three years
in seriously trying to track where Sheena was?"
[Vidhie] It was very weird because suddenly I got emails from her
from a different account.
Didn't really sound like Sheena.
"Missing you," all of these things.
But I didn't, like, question as to why...
you know, "Why is there a different email?"
[Mekhail] Indrani told my grandparents and me
that Sheena's gone for higher studies to United States.
And she even told us that for a couple of months,
she wants to get settled down in that place
and she doesn't want anyone to contact.
And when she is comfortable, she will contact back us.
Indrani wasn't a full-fledged, professional criminal
for me to suspect her of having murdered someone.
I trusted everything she said.
Indrani said, "Sheena is gone," and I accepted it.
[Vidhie] So, Mekhail and Sheena were quite close.
Obviously. I mean, they were brother and sister.
They've been together since the time they were born, essentially.
It was one of those underlying, kind of unspoken connections, you know.
I was never close to Mekhail. I never felt, you know...
I never felt... right around him.
With Sheena, it was...
Today, I feel like it was almost cosmic, you know? It was... It was instant.
There was just that love between us.
I can talk about my memories with her.
But when I start thinking about all of this,
the reality is that she's... I've not seen her,
I've not heard her voice for, like, over ten years,
since 2012.
I just... I don't know, I... I...
I don't even know what to make out of it.
It's a really tough nut for me to crack because I just...
I'm not willing to accept...
this reality right now.
[reporter] As of now, Indrani has not been cooperating with the Mumbai police.
She's been constantly saying that her daughter is in the U.S.,
as far as she knows, and she has not been killed.
That certainly is not helping Mumbai police's case,
and that is why they need some more evidence,
which would actually establish the fact
that these people were involved in the killing of her daughter.
It will be a challenge for Mumbai police to gather proof
for the murder committed three years ago.
A special team from Mumbai will be sent to Raigad.
As the dead body was buried for three years,
a forensic team will also be sent along
to recover the evidence.
[Ganesh] At four o'clock in the morning,
the Mumbai police from Khar Police Station came.
I was shocked to see
that so many policemen came to my place so early in the morning.
They told me that they have come regarding the incident that happened in 2012.
But it was raining, and due to the darkness,
I couldn't show them the exact location.
[dogs barking]
It took five to six hours for us to find the body.
They packed the skeleton in a plastic bag...
and took it to Mumbai for further processing.
We still do not know who tried to dump the case in 2012.
All we know is that a murder took place,
a particular person committed the murder,
but we really do not know about the larger conspiracy.
Who contacted and prevailed over the police not to register the case?
Now, this certainly had happened
because of some powerful, invisible hand at play.
[reporter] The latest is that the Mumbai police will jointly interrogate
the three key players who allegedly killed Sheena Bora,
her mother, Indrani Mukerjea, her stepfather, Sanjeev Khanna,
and Indrani's driver.
The trio will be interrogated by the Mumbai Police Commissioner, Rakesh Maria.
Just to give you a little bit background, Rakesh Maria is "the" Rakesh Maria.
He was the head of Mumbai Crime Branch,
and Mumbai Crime Branch is an ace investigating agency.
At least, the Mumbai media always like to compare it with the Scotland Yard.
He's the one who cracked the Indian Mujahideen case,
cracked the '93 blast case.
He's the one who was in charge of the investigation
of 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
He knew very well who Peter Mukerjea and Indrani Mukerjea are.
Who are they for the media, for the Indian audiences.
[indistinct chatter]
He understands that there is a media attention to this case.
He will come out of the police station at 8:30, exactly at the prime time.
He knew that everybody is going to cut that press conference live.
[policeman] Silence! Silence!
[reporter] Sir! Start your briefing, sir!
This morning, we have recovered the skeletal remains
of the deceased Sheena Bora.
We've also recovered...
Sheena Bora's passport...
from Dehradun today.
This would negate the theory...
that...
Sheena Bora went to the U.S.
[Rajdeep] Once the media converts a case like the Sheena Bora murder case
into a crime drama,
then the police are also very much part of the cast
that is part of this drama unfolding in front of you.
And they know it!
You see, the police also know
that this is not a case that is going to play out in anonymity.
It's going to play out in the glare of a television camera...
where the bigger the headline,
the... the more sensational it is,
the more likely it is to trend.
[overlapping chatter]
There is another thing. It's very important.
It's just a possibility.
It might be worthwhile to look into the involvement
of a tantric or a soothsayer and other people.
These women are very strong,
but they always operate with advice, et cetera.
[overlapping chatter]
I'm not kidding you.
You know, you're looking for that little bit of extra masala
that would give the story an added edge.
[woman on TV] She is a disgusting human being,
probably a psychopath,
probably has done something like this maybe once, maybe before?
Indrani Mukerjea was instantly made...
the vamp,
the villainess,
the "mujrim," the criminal,
because around her,
the entire storyline could be built.
When this case broke out,
everyone already had their position laid out.
You know, my mom was the evil murderer,
my dad was this person who didn't know anything at the time,
my stepbrothers, it was... "Oh, poor Rahul."
For me, it was a really spoiled, kind of bratty child.
But whoever's interested in this case
should keep Sheena at the very forefront of their head.
This whole thing is about Sheena.
There is a person who's died in all of this.
You know, let's give our viewers a larger understanding on what is taking place.
[reporter] Police sources have revealed gruesome details of the murder.
[reporter 2] The Mumbai police are saying that in the evening, at around 6:30,
Indrani called Sheena at Bandra, near National College.
Rahul was with Sheena at that particular time.
[suspenseful music playing]
This is the famous Linking Road in Bandra,
and this building here, right outside this store,
is where Indrani and Sanjeev allegedly picked up Sheena.
Did she... Did she get dropped off to Amarsons
in the night or in the morning?
Night, night!
-[Rahul] In the night? -[Peter] Night, darling?
[Rahul] What night was it that she met Indrani?
[Peter] 25th, Indrani was going to Calcutta,
so it was the 24th at night.
[Rahul] Okay, so then it... she must have taken the... she must have...
If she did inform, then she would have taken the following day, presumably,
having had a late night or whatever, taken it off.
[Peter] Presumably, presumably.
[Rahul] And then, since then, she hasn't been in touch.
[reporter] They offered her a drink, which was spiked,
and thereafter, when she was feeling drowsy,
she was taken at a lonely and isolated spot.
[suspenseful music playing]
[reporter 2] The police is also claiming
that Indrani and Sanjeev Khanna strangled Sheena...
[ominous music playing]
[reporter 3] After killing her, the accused returned
to Peter Mukerjea's home in Worli.
[reporter 4] That night, they kept the dead body in this very bungalow,
inside their garage, inside their car.
[reporter 5] Indrani Mukerjea apparently put makeup on Sheena's body
so that her body would look fresh
and no one would assume that there was a problem.
And then the body was taken to Raigad early in the morning.
Rahul, see, if she wanted to contact you,
she would've contacted you, Rahul. I'll tell you that.
[Rahul] Yeah, if she wanted to contact anybody,
she would have contacted them. No, she hasn't contacted anybody. Anybody.
[Indrani] Yeah, probably because... probably because she sees...
I'll tell you probably why. This is my view, okay?
-Because you are calling up everyone. -[Rahul] How do we...
How do we know if she's dead or alive, Indrani?
She hasn't contacted anybody.
[Indrani] She is not going to be dead on this behavior...
Why would you think she'd be dead for no reason?
She's caught a flight and gone somewhere. Why would she be dead for no reason?
You know, I mean, I won't think, you know... Why would I think she is dead?
[Peter] Honestly, I don't believe you...
you should really be worried on that front, actually.
[Indrani] I don't think you should be worried on that front, Rahul, at all.
[reporter] Indrani Mukerjea is not some socialite
who needs to be taken lightly,
to suggest she had some complicated thought pattern,
but to treat her as a hardcore criminal
who has committed the most gruesome, gruesome act.
[ominous music fades]
I'm ready, guys.
Go on then, ask me whatever you need to.
[ominous music playing]
[music concludes]