Manish Pachouly - The Sheena Bora Case

Manish Pachouly is a Mumbai-based senior journalist with more than two decades of experience in print media. He has worked with Mid-Day, the Times of India group and Hindustan Times. At HT he was heading the crime and legal team in Mumbai. As an investigative journalist, he broke many stories on cricket betting racket, major income tax raids, and hawala operations.

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A big thank to my daughter Samika, who was my first critic and gave some valuable suggestions, while I was writing this book, amid her hectic studies for her board exams.

Many thanks to Shantanu Guha Ray, the India editor for Central European News (CEN) for making me write this book.

Special thanks to cheerful Shreya Chakraborti, Neelam Narula and Aditi Chopra for shaping up the chapters and pushing me to get more and more exclusive information.

My sincere gratitude to Advocate Shreyansh Mithare; Charul Shah and Debasish Panigrahi of the Hindustan Times, and senior journalist Vivek Agrawal for helping me with important documents and valuable inputs.

Last but not the least, thanks to Priya and Kapil Kapoor of Roli Books for putting their trust in me.

I have given suck, and know

How tender tis to love the babe that milks me.

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,

And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth, ACT I, Scene 7

A 2nd wife of her 3rd husband is charged along with her 2nd husband of killing her daughter from her 1st husband who was having an affair with the son of her 3rd husband from his 1st wife!!! WhatsApp forward which went viral after the Sheena Bora case surfaced, August 2015

Three years after the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora, a journalists chance meeting with Indrani Mukerjea revealed the confident and composed side of the ex-business tycoon. This was still a time when the world didnt know that young Sheena was dead.

Roshni Olivera, a senior journalist with Bombay Times, a supplement of the Times of India in Mumbai that first introduced the Page Three in the media, had an encounter with Indrani in April 2015. The two were flying from New Delhi to Mumbai. After Roshni struck up a conversation with her co-passenger, she was pleasantly surprised to know Indranis identity. She wondered for a moment how the once high-society queen was travelling in economy class.

There was nothing incongruous about Indrani. Well-dressed and confidently articulate, with a hint of affluence, she betrayed no sign of anxiety or the deadly secret that she had been hiding from the world for the last three years.