MUMBAI: Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, walked out of Byculla Jail in Mumbai on Friday, a day after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court.
Indrani, facing trials for the alleged killing of her daughter Sheena Bora, was lodged at the Byculla women’s prison in Mumbai, following her arrest in August 2015, and had spent over six years there.
Speaking to the reporters while leaving the jail, she said, “I am very happy.”
“I am just going home…Empathy and forgiveness…I have forgiven all the people who have hurt me. I have learned a lot in the jail,” she told ANI.
Before the release, Indrani’s lawyer Sana Raees Shaikh said that all formalities have been complied with. “She will attend every date of the trial as we want the case to proceed expeditiously,” Shaikh said.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, B R Gavai and A S Bopanna granted bail to Mukerjea while noting that she has been in jail for six-and-half years. “We are granting bail to Indrani Mukerjea. Six-and-a-half years is too long a time. We are not making comments on the merits of the case. Even if the 50 per cent witnesses are given up by the prosecution, the trial would not be over soon,” the bench had said.
Indrani had challenged the Bombay High Court order of November 16, 2021 that denied her bail. Earlier, the bench had asked the CBI to file an affidavit on Indrani’s bail plea. The CBI, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, had opposed the plea of Indrani Mukerjea, saying that she has committed a “heinous act of planning and killing her own daughter” and “such a gruesome act does not deserve leniency”.
Indrani has always maintained that Sheena was not murdered, and had gone abroad for her education in 2012, although Indrani could never prove her claims. (ANI)