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Vidhie made a stunning claim when she told court that Sheena Bora was with her boyfriend Rahul Mukerjea at least till April 26, 2012, which was two days after her alleged murder.
Sheena Bora murder case: Witness Vidhie walks back on her previous statement (File/PTI)
Vidhie Mukerjea, a key witness in the Sheena Bora murder case, took a U-turn in an affidavit in a Mumbai court on Thursday and claimed that the CBI had recorded her statement back in 2015, soon after her mother and main accused Indrani was held.
She contradicted her testimony just two days earlier, in which she had denied ever recording a statement to investigators and alleged that the documents presented as her statement in the CBI chargesheet were “forged and fabricated”, Hindustan Times reported.
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Her testimony was completed in the special CBI court on Thursday.
Vidhie had made a stunning claim on Wednesday when she told the court that Bora was with her boyfriend Rahul Mukerjea at least till April 26, 2012, which was two days after her alleged murder.
She also claimed that a woman’s voice heard in the background of a phone call between Rahul and a caretaker was Sheena Bora’s.
The alleged conversation had purportedly taken place at least two days after Bora’s death.
She cited her own conversation with Rahul Mukerjea and told the CBI court t hat Sheena was last seen with her boyfriend.
Vidhie is the daughter of former media executive Indrani Mukerjea and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna – both of whom are accused in the decade-long murder case.
Sheena Bora was the daughter of Indrani Mukerjea from her earlier relationship.
On Wednesday, the court played a recording of a phone call between Rahul Mukerjea and a caretaker at the Guwahati home of Indrani’s parents. In the six-minute conversation, a woman’s voice is heard twice in the background saying, “nana, nani ko bolo report file karne ko” (ask grandparents to file a report). The call, believed to have taken place between April 26 and 30, 2012, was about Sheena Bora’s disappearance.
Standing in the witness box, Vidhie identified the voice as that of Sheena Bora. The word “report” has been spoken in a typically Assamese tone and it was Sheena’s voice, she claimed.
“I heard this recording over hundreds of times to be sure, it has an Assamese accent, it’s her (Bora’s) voice,” Vidhie claimed, news agency PTI reported.
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