Indrani Mukerjee gets bail in Sheena Bora murder case, SC orders

 National Desk:
 Indrani Mukerjee, an accused in Mumbai's famous Sheena Bora murder case, has got bail.  The country's highest court has granted this bail to Indrani on medical grounds.
 She was lodged in Byculla Women's Jail in Mumbai for the last 6 years in connection with the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora.  Earlier, the Bombay High Court and the Sessions Court had dismissed 7 separate bail applications of Mukherjee.
 The Supreme Court accepted that in 2020 co-accused Peter Mukerjea has also been released on bail.  The CBI had said that he had committed the heinous act of planning and killing his own daughter Sheena Bora.  The CBI also said that Sheena was alive after April 2012, a fiction of Indrani.  On February 18, the court had issued a notice to the CBI on Indrani Mukerjee's bail plea and sought its response.  For Indrani Mukerjee ,Mukul Rohatgi had said that Indrani is in jail for 6.5 years.  The trial will not end even in the next 10 years.  185 witnesses are yet to be examined.  No witness was examined in the last 1.5 years.  Her husband is out on bail.  Indrani Mukerjee is also suffering from mental illness.  Indrani Mukerjee, who is in judicial custody of a special CBI court in the Sheena Bora murder case, had filed a bail plea in the Supreme Court.  Earlier, Indrani Mukerjee could not get bail from the Bombay High Court.
Indrani Mukerjee has been lodged in the Byculla Women's Prison in Mumbai since her arrest in August 2015.  Earlier, the special CBI court had refused bail to Indrani several times.  The CBI has been probing the case since 2012.  Indrani Mukerjee is accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora.  Mukherjee is facing trial for the murder of his daughter Sheena on 24 April 2012.  She was arrested by Khar Police on 25 August 2015 and is lodged in Byculla Jail since September 2015.  Indrani was accused of strangling her daughter Sheena to death in Bandra, Mumbai and buried the body in Raigarh district.  Investigating agencies claimed that the remains of Sheena Bora have also been found.