Cop claimed she saw Sheena alive in Kashmir: Indrani Mukerjea to court

Jailed for killing her daughter Sheena Bora Indrani Mukerjea has now moved an application to the sessions court claiming that it was a Mumbai Crime Branch officer who told her that Bora was alive and in KashmirIn November Indrani sent a letter to the CBI director stating that a Byculla jail inmate claimed to have met Bora in Kashmir but she didnrsquot reveal her identity On Monday she submitted an application in the sessions court identifying the inmate as Police Inspector Asha KorkeShe also told the court that the CBI has not yet responded to her letter sent on November 27 ldquoI have approached this court to seek a reply from the CBI on how they plan to take this forward I want to know the truthrdquo her ninepage application reads The court has given the CBI until February 4 to file a reply to her applicationPolice Inspector Asha Korke centre was arrested in November in connection with the extortion case involving exCP PBS File picThe state CID in November arrested Korke in connection with the extortion case in which former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh is also an accused and sent her to Byculla womenrsquos jail where Indrani is also incarceratedIn her application Indrani stated that around 7 am on November 25 2021 Korke came up to her to discuss something important Korke told her that she had gone to Srinagar Kashmir and met Bora around June or JulyldquoKorke said she saw this woman and thought she looked familiar Later she realised that the woman was Sheena Bora whose photographs she had been seeing frequently in newspapers and television Korke claimed that she went up to the woman and called her by the name Sheena to which the woman spontaneously respondedrdquo according to her applicationKorke told Indrani that she introduced herself as a police inspector from Maharashtra to which Bora asked if she had come to put her behind bars ldquoKorke also claimed that she tried to reason with Sheena to come forward as her parents are incarcerated for her murderrdquo the application reads To which ldquoBora told Korke lsquoI have started my new life I do not wish to return to my old life anymorersquordquo it addedThe inspector told Indrani that later Bora left with a man who looked like a foreigner on a motorcycle ldquoI asked Ms Korke why she didnrsquot hold back Sheena when she met her Korke said that there would have been charges of kidnapping and assault against her had she done thatrdquo Indranirsquos application statedKorke told her that she has ldquorealised that she had committed a grave mistake by not disclosing this earlier and did not want to carry this burden anymorerdquoIndrani stated that Korke later informed her that she had gone for her vacation from June 21 to June 25 2021 and met Bora near Dal Lake on June 24 2021 The interaction happened between 4 pm and 6 pm Korke told Indrani as per the applicationKorke is ready to record her statement before the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI as well as the court Indrani mentioned in the application