‘No guarantee you will come back’: SC rejects Indrani Mukerjea’s plea to travel abroad

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to grant Indrani Mukerjea the permission to travel abroad while her trial in the Sheena Bora murder case is pending, Live Law reported.

The court, however, ordered that the trial be expedited and completed within a year.

Indrani Mukerjea, accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, was granted bail by the Supreme Court in May 2022 after being in custody for nearly six-and-a-half years.

Bora was allegedly strangled to death in a car on April 24, 2012, by Indrani Mukerjea, a former media executive. Bora’s body had been burnt and dumped in a forest in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. Indrani Mukerjea was arrested in 2015.

On Wednesday, Indrani Mukerjea’s counsel argued that the bail she was granted in 2022 allowed her to travel abroad with permission from the special Central Bureau of Investigation court, which is hearing the case.

The bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal was hearing a special leave petition by Indrani Mukerjea challenging the Bombay High Court’s September 27 order that denied her request to travel abroad.

The High Court had reversed the special court’s decision allowing Indrani Mukerjea to travel abroad for tasks such as paying property tax, updating her bank accounts and changing her Will to remove her ex-husband Peter Mukerjea.

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