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‘I was left penniless, my stuff moved out of dwelling’: Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter | Mumbai News
‘I was left penniless, my stuff moved out of dwelling’: Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter | Mumbai News
MUMBAI: Vidhie Mukerjea, a key witness within the 2015 Sheena Bora homicide trial, has made a number of claims corresponding to solid statements in her identify. She mentioned, “If such forged statements have been recorded in my name, there must be an ulterior motive or mala fide intentions.” She additional claimed that in her interactions with legislation enforcement, she was by no means alone however accompanied by numerous members of the family, together with her stepfather Peter Mukerjea, his sister Shangon Das Gupta, and his son Rabin Mukerjea. According to Vidhie, these people “fed” data to investigating officers, making the recorded statements a mix of their inputs fairly than her private information.The organic daughter of Indrani and co-accused Sanjeev Khanna, Vidhie additionally accused Peter Mukerjea’s sons Rahul and Rabin of siphoning her mom’s belongings. She claimed that inside 15 days of Indrani’s arrest, ancestral jewelry value crores of rupees and over Rs 7 crore in financial institution financial savings have been taken. She believes this occurred with Peter’s information and consent. “Rahul and Rabin took this jewellery much prior to the arrest of my father (in Nov 2015),” Vidhie deposed.She additionally alleged that cash was transferred from Indrani’s ANZ Bank account with out her permission. “At that time, Rahul was not working and Rabin was not in good financial condition. Rahul and Rabin had a clear motive to falsely implicate Indrani in the present offence and to ensure that she will not come out of prison. Indrani was left with no money to defend herself after her arrest,” she mentioned.Vidhie claimed that Rabin even threatened her, saying, “Your mother has gone to prison for life, and she will never come out.”During her examination-in-chief by the prosecution, Vidhie described the preliminary relationship between Indrani and Sheena Bora as “amazing”. However, she mentioned issues modified with the arrival of Peter’s son Rahul and his romantic relationship with Sheena. She mentioned disputes started when Rahul’s drug use and, subsequently Sheena’s, got here to gentle.She maintained that Indrani’s “strictness” was an effort to mould them into respectable residents and that her mom was by no means aggressive or violent. Vidhie additionally famous that she acquired an e mail from Sheena in 2013, a yr after the alleged homicide.Vidhie detailed the devastating affect of her mother and father’ arrest on her personal life. She was left “penniless” and had no place to sleep after members of the family, together with Rahul and his brother, moved the contents of her dwelling. She claimed that on the day after her mom’s arrest, she was “disentitled” from her inheritance. Vidhie testified that Peter had a letter despatched to the constructing society to cease the switch of a flat in her identify, which was meant to be her 18th birthday present. She additionally found her identify was faraway from Peter’s will and that she was by no means legally adopted by him. Despite these “transgressions,” she acknowledged, “I still love my father very much.”Vidhie described the interval as essentially the most “traumatic” of her life, with relations preventing over her mom’s belongings whereas nobody visited Indrani in jail. She alleged that Rabin pressured her to oppose her mom, making it “very clear” that she was both “with us against your mother or you are on your own”. She additionally claimed that relations began preventing over which furnishings would go to whose home, and shared her mom’s perfumes and luggage amongst themselves.She alleged that she was “bombarded with lies and false accusations” in opposition to her mom by Rahul. Under this “wrong influence” and media reviews, she wrote a e-book titled Devil’s Daughter. However, she not stands by its contents.The prosecution objected to the defence’s line of questioning about property and belongings, however the decide overruled the objection. Indrani’s lawyer argued that these points have been related as a result of the prosecution’s personal idea was that Indrani was “over-ambitious and greedy” and the way she opposed the connection between Sheena and Rahul, whereas Peter supported it. The cross-examination will proceed on Wednesday.