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Politician 'stalled' body probe

Published On : 30 Aug 2015


Mumbai, Aug. 29 (The Telegraph): A politician had put pressure on Raigad police to go slow on the identification process after the body now thought to be that of Sheena Bora was discovered in the district in 2012, a police inquiry has found.

Whether it was because of the politician's interference or otherwise, no case of murder or accidental death was registered after remains of the body were found at Pen in Raigad, around 80km from Mumbai.

When villagers at Pen found a half-burnt and mutilated body - some sources said stuffed inside a suitcase with a nail-polished hand sticking out - they had informed the village police patil, who liaises between a village and its police station. Every village in Maharashtra is expected to have a police patil.


The police patil had immediately contacted the local police station, which sent constables to the spot with alacrity. But within 48 hours, the police "lost all interest", a source said.

The Maharashtra director-general of police has ordered an inquiry against the then Raigad superintendent of police, R.G. Shinde. Sources said Raigad police did not activate the identification process when Shinde was in charge.

Shinde could not be contacted to confirm whether any politician had interfered and, if so, who it was.

The Mukerjeas are known to have contacts in at least two political parties based in Maharashtra.

"Neither a crime nor a report of accidental death was registered when Raigad police sent recovered skeletal remains to JJ hospital in 2012," PTI quoted Suvez Haque, the current SP, as saying.


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