Calcutta, Sept. 7 (The Telegraph): Sanjeev Khanna told The Telegraph tonight: "I know I am in trouble... but I will get out of it."

About an hour later, Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria said Sanjeev had in Calcutta led the police team to the shoes "the accused" had used when Sheena Bora's body was dumped at Pen in Raigad in 2012.

"Khanna... led us to the spot where we have recovered the shoes which were used by the accused when they went to dump the body at Pen. In addition to that, we have recovered part of the jewellery of the deceased Sheena also," Maria said in Mumbai.

The police chief said a DNA test results had conclusively established that Sheena was the daughter of Indrani Mukerjea, accused of murdering the girl. Maria did not identify the father but police sources said Siddhartha Das's sample had also matched.

Around an hour before in Calcutta, Sanjeev was waiting for the 9.40pm Jet Airways flight 9W628 to Mumbai after the security check. Sanjeev was shorn of his mask, without which he had not been seen in public since he was arrested on August 26.

Sanjeev was accompanied by at least four policemen but he was sitting alone in an almost empty corner of the waiting lounge, often taking his glasses off and wiping his face.

Approached by a reporter of this newspaper, Sanjeev expressed confidence that he would "get out of it". With Maria claiming later that the shoe had been found, the source of Sanjeev's confidence was a riddle.

In certain cases, some of the accused turn approvers and cooperate with the police in exchange for leniency. Neither Sanjeev nor the police sources have given such an impression till now.

Sanjeev was flying back to Mumbai after a hectic day that began with a 2am flight to Calcutta and searches in multiple locations.

Maria did not specify where the shoes and the jewellery were found but police sources in Mumbai said a team led by investigating officer Parameshwar Gamle went to Sanjeev's apartment in Howrah's Andul, his uncle's house in Hastings where he had been living lately and Sanjeev's office at 46 CR Avenue.

46 CR Avenue is a four-storey building whose ground floor houses a furniture store. The first floor has a photocopy shop and the office of a share-trading firm and the second and third floors are rented out to a company that deals in electrical goods.

Ashok Singh, who identified himself as the caretaker, said he had seen Indrani and Sanjeev when they ran a placement agency from the address. "She (Indrani) stopped coming here and I heard that she and Sanjeev had fallen out," Singh said.

After shutting down the agency, Sanjeev let out his space on rent. "The last time I saw him was in April when he came to sign an agreement with a man who rented a room for opening the photocopy shop," Singh said.

Some sources said the police team also went to the Belvedere Road house from where Sanjeev had been arrested.

The searches, that began almost immediately after the Mumbai flight landed around 4.20am on Monday, were kept under wraps until the police produced him in Alipore court around 4pm and sought a day's transit remand.

The magistrate in Calcutta refused to accept the plea for transit remand, saying it was a Mumbai case.

Sanjeev was expected to have been produced in Bandra court today along with his co-accused, Indrani and Shamwar Rai, because his police remand ended on Monday.

Indrani and Rai, who had been in police custody for 14 days, were today sent to judicial custody till September 21.

One section of the police said Sanjeev was produced in the Alipore court after the police realised that he could not be taken back to Mumbai within court hours and they could be accused of illegal detention.

"Since Sanjeev was in Calcutta and Mumbai police had taken a transit remand from a Calcutta court on August 27, we thought it would be safe to take him to a Calcutta magistrate's court to seek remand. But the Calcutta court did not want to intervene, so we will bring him to Mumbai and present him before a court here, tonight or by tomorrow," said a Mumbai police officer.

Around 8.15pm, Gamle, the Mumbai investigating officer, was seen getting off a vehicle at Calcutta airport. He was alone and Sanjeev or the other three officers were nowhere to be seen.

They were apparently brought into the airport through another entry. Asked about Sanjeev, Gamle said: "He has already left at 7pm. Now only I am returning home. I am very tired."

Khanna was talking to The Telegraph inside the airport a few minutes after Gamle said he had already left.

Reporting by Sanjay Mandal, Pronab Mondal, Tamaghna Banerjee and Kinsuk Basu

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