Overview

• In a special CBI court, Vidhie Mukerjea denied giving formal statements to Khar police or the CBI, calling documents in the chargesheet forged and fabricated to implicate Indrani Mukerjea and Sanjeev Khanna.
• She alleged Rahul and Rabin Mukerjea took ancestral jewellery and siphoned more than Rs 7 crore from accounts after Indrani’s 2015 arrest, leaving her without funds and supplying a motive to keep her in jail.
• Vidhie said she was made to sign blank pages and email printouts at the CBI office, adding that family members accompanying her “fed” information to officers during questioning.
• She told the court she no longer stands by her 2021 memoir Devil’s Daughter, saying it was written under the wrong influence during a traumatic period.
• Her deposition continues as prosecutors maintain that Sheena Bora was strangled in 2012 and her body burned and dumped in Raigad, a case that surfaced after driver Shyamvar Rai’s 2015 confession.