'Sheena Bora Wanted Sanyaas': Childhood Friend's Big Revelation on Her Ties With Indrani Mukerjea, Boyfriend Rahul

Sheena Bora, allegedly killed by her ‘biological mother' Indrani Mukerjea, had once expressed the desire to take "sanyas", as she was fed up with the problems in her life, her school friend told a trial court on Thursday. The 38-year-old, appearing as a prosecution witness, also shed light on Sheena's relations with Indrani, the prime accused in the case, and her plans to marry to Rahul, the son of media businessman and Indrani's then husband Peter Mukerjea from his earlier marriage.Sheena's school friend told the court that she had studied with Sheena till Class 12 in the same school in Guwahati.While Sheena left for Mumbai around 2006 to stay with her mother after completing her school, the two remained in touch."In November 2011, I met Sheena at Guwahati during

my wedding. Sheena was there for about a week. During this period she communicated that she was happy with Rahul and will marry him may be in the next one year," the witness said, according to news agency PTI.The school friend claimed that Sheena never had a good relationship with Indrani.Indrani was not in their lives when Sheena and her brother were growing up, and that was one of the reasons for their uneasy relationship, the witness said, PTI reported.In one of her e-mails, Sheena reportedly wrote that she wanted to take sanyas (renounce worldly life) due to the "problems and dramas surrounding her life".According to the witness, Sheena once told her that Indrani administered her wrong medication, and she landed in hospital as a result.Rahul was not in touch with his father Peter Mukerjea, and she was not in contact with her mother, and the two were happy that way, the witness said, according to PTI.The school friend reportedly spoke to Sheena last on April 15, 2012.The witness told the court that she received a text from Sheena's number around April 24 and 25 informing her that she was breaking up with Rahul and going to change her phone number."She will be going off social media for some time and I should not worry (the message read)," the woman told the court.She immediately called the number from which the message had been sent, but it was switched off, she said.The witness also testified that Rahul contacted her, saying he had dropped Sheena in Bandra as she was to go shopping with Indrani, and he was worried as Sheena had not returned."Rahul kept telling me that nobody is taking his report (about Sheena's disappearance), saying (telling him that) Sheena is with Indrani and therefore he should not worry," the witness said.It is the prosecution's case that Bora (24) was strangled to death in a car by her mother Indrani Mukerjea, her then driver Shyamvar Rai (who later turned approver in the case) and Indrani's former husband Sanjeev Khanna on April 24, 2012. Her body was burnt and disposed of at a forest in nearby Raigad.As per the CBI, which probed the case, Sheena and Indrani had financial disputes, and Indrani did not approve of her relationship with Rahul.The murder came to light in 2015, after Rai spilled the beans following his arrest in another case, leading to the arrest of Indrani Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna and later Peter Mukerjea.With inputs from PTI