So, there are some new twists and turns in the Mumbai "trial of the century"
I did an OP a while ago I now can't find about this, but I just thought I'd catch up anybody who's interested:
A few years ago, a body was found in the woods outside of Mumbai. There was no identification and it didn't match any missing persons, so after a few months they cremated the remains (this is the common practice in India) but saved a few DNA samples.
Last year, the police got an anonymous tip that the body was Sheena Bora, the sister of big-name television producer Indrani Mukerjea. Bora had allegedly been in the US for the past several years. The tip apparently contained enough information to get the police to take it at least semi-seriously, and they managed to surveil Mukerjea and pick up her driver on drug charges.
Under questioning, the driver confessed to killing Bora, and so specifically denied that Mukerjea ordered it that the police got even more suspicious. They took in Indrani and her husband Peter (also a huge-name television producer), and under questioning their stories fell apart. The police were convinced Indrani killed Sheena.
And now it gets weird.
Under further questioning, a lot of the family backstory started to fall apart. Furthermore, the DNA comparison showed that Bora was a relative of Indrani, but not a sister. Indrani eventually admitted that Sheena was not in fact her sister, but her daughter from an undisclosed first marriage (Peter thought he was her second husband, in fact he is her third). Sheena and her brother (also from the first marriage, also publicly thought to be Indrani's brother) were raised by Indrani's parents thinking she was their much older sister.
And now it gets weirder.
Indrani's second husband, Sanjeev Khanna, was eventually implicated, and police say he, along with the driver, murdered Bora at Mukerjea's request. The reason she gave them at the time was that Bora was dating Peter Mukerjea's son from his first marriage, and she disapproved of that relationship. But there may well have been more compelling reasons: the police recently did an inventory of all the Mukerjeas' joint property and found that she had basically been running a real estate Ponzi scheme that was on the verge of collapsing. Bora had a large trust fund from her father, Siddhartha Das, which has now mysteriously been emptied.
And wait! Now it gets even weirder. Police have today arrested Peter Mukerjea, the 3rd husband, claiming that he actually engineered the whole thing (and presumably was framing Indrani).
If this isn't made into a Lifetime movie I'm going to be very disappointed.