Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Friday transferred the high-profile Sheena Bora murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The decision came even as former Mumbai Police commissioner Rakesh Maria was transferred and will not be probing the case, said state Additional Chief Secretary (Home) KP Bakshi.
Maria was probing the case and was promoted earlier in September with the government calling it a routine matter which should not be linked to the Sheena Bora murder case. Bakshi said the case is being transferred so that there is an impartial and complete probe, and guilty must be punished.
"We want to send a message to the people that we have no intention of interfering with any investigation. Therefore, this decision has been taken," said Bakshi.
"Formalities have been completed. We have contacted the Central Government officials. The decision of the Centre will be accepted by the state," Bakshi said.
Bakshi added that the Sheena case was not just a murder case and money issue is also involved in it.
Ahmed Javed is the new Mumbai Police Commissioner but he isn't interested in supervising the probe in the case, said Bakshi.
Earlier, the then Investigating Officer of Pen tehsil in Raigad had reportedly told the team probing the alleged lapses in the case that he was asked not to file an FIR. The order was given by then Superintendent of Police RD Shinde, he claimed. Sheena's body remains were reportedly recovered from Pen forest in Raigad.
The murder case hit the headlines a few weeks back and Sheena's mother Indrani, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyam Rai have been arrested on the charges of murdering Sheena and disposing of the body at Pen forest in Maharashtra's Raigad district in April 2012. According to police, Sheena was murdered on April 24, 2012.
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