Sheena Bora murder case: Email ‘from Sheena’ has CBI perplexed

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The email sent on March 14, 2013, a year after Sheena was murdered, shows her allegedly “cleaning up her bad karma” as she explains Indrani’s relationship to the Bora family. Believed to have been written by Indrani, after she got access to Sheena’s account, it identifies her as neither Sheena’s mother or sister, but as a “good samaritan”.

The letter signed as Sheena has a narrative where Peter is told a long story explaining the family lineage.

“My legal parents U K Bora and D R Bora, who are actually my grandparents, had a daughter and an only child Indrani Bora who was my mother,” reads the letter. The letter explains Indrani eloped with a man and had two children, Sheena and Mekhail. But when the couple could not make ends meet they returned to the Bora household. The letter reads that once they returned, things were never normal between the grandparents and the couple and they left leaving behind the children with the grandparents. They never returned till date, the letter says.

The letter gives a long narrative describing how the current Indrani, married to Peter and now a prime accused in the Sheena’s murder is actually a girl rescued from a civil unrest in Assam. “It was 1991 when there was major civil unrest in Assam and there were plenty of kidnappings etc, a young girl was brought to our home unconscious and severely injured by my uncle who was in IPS,” the letter reads.
“While her face was battered, I think she did resemble photographs of my mother though I think she was much younger,” the letter reads. The girl, the letter reads, was taken away in a few weeks. “Your wife Indrani was the girl who was brought to our home in that unconscious state. While our uncle had never disclosed where and how they found her due to some security reasons and his own professional ethics as a police officer, he told my parents she could not be taken to a hospital till they could move her out of Assam. When she left Assam, she was moved out of Kolkata under my mother’s identity in lieu of compensation paid to them,” the letter explains.
The narrative says the girl was shifted to another family and given the identity of Indrani and a new set of documents was made in 1991 by officials. The letter doesn’t explain why this was needed or why a fresh identity was sought.

“After recovering, this girl struggled to remember who she was. She slowly started embracing the identity of Indrani Bora though she knew it was not who she was. She met Sanjeev through the family she was living with and they got married in the next couple of years. When Sanjeev’s family contacted my parents to meet they had to say they had nothing to do with their daughter as she had left home after a fight and it was shameful for a girl to do, but the reality was she was not their daughter..,” the letter reads.

The letter blames Rahul for duping her (Sheena) and points to the manner in which he allegedly chose to create a rift between Peter and Indrani. “When Indrani met you, may be should have disclosed to you all of this. But either she was afraid you would not believe her or maybe she was just Indrani by then. That was it,” the letter reads.
rohit.alok@expressindia.com