Vidhie Mukerjea, a key prosecution witness in the Sheena Bora murder case, submitted an affidavit in a Mumbai court on Thursday stating that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had recorded her statement following the arrest of her mother in 2015, news agency PTI reported. This contradicts her earlier deposition two days ago, in which she had denied giving any statement and claimed that documents in the CBI charge sheet were “forged and fabricated.”

The 28-year-old is the daughter of former media executive Indrani and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna, both accused in the decade-long sensational case. Sheena Bora, the victim, was Indrani’s daughter from an earlier relationship.

Vidhie said she had prepared the affidavit in 2022 for submission in case she was “physically unavailable for deposition before the court”.