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Bombay High Court asks trial court to hear afresh Peter Mukerjea's plea

Meanwhile the special CBI court, which is hearing arguments in the Sheena Bora murder case, on Monday continued recording the cross examination of Rai.

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The Bombay High Court on Monday remanded a petition filed by former media baron Peter Mukerjea seeking directions to the special CBI court to call for the case diary and personal diaries of the two Khar police officers who had arrested accused-turned-approver Shyamvar Rai in an illegal arms case.

Justice A M Badar asked the trial judge to hear Mukerjea's plea afresh and decide on it in a month. While setting aside the trial court order of July rejecting the plea, the High Court noted that it had not gone into whether it was 'desirable' and 'required' to call for the case diary, but had assumed that the statement of two police officers who were complainants in the Sheena Bora case was part of the final report filed by CBI in the murder case, bearing details of the arrest of Rai in the arms act case.

Mukerjea, through his counsel Shrikant Shivade, argued that policemen Ganesh Dalvi and Dinesh Kadam had recorded their statements in the Arms Act case pending against Rai, which should be presented to the defence from cross examinations.

Meanwhile the special CBI court, which is hearing arguments in the Sheena Bora murder case, on Monday continued recording the cross examination of Rai.

"I used to purchase many SIM cards as per mobile scheme which the mobile company used to provide, however now I do not recollect any number. Mikhail's number was the only one known to me," said Rai.

The defence advocate also pointed out the controversies in his statement. The defence had questioned Rai for his mode of transport which he had taken when he commuted from Nagpur to Delhi and back to Mumbai, days before Sheena's death on the alleged instructions of Indrani Mukerjea, to which he said that he took a flight to Nagpur and then took a regular ticket from Nagpur to Delhi, however his statement recorded before the police states that he had taken a train to Nagpur. When the contradiction was brought to his notice, he refrained from saying anything on the matter and claimed that he doesn't remember anything about the route of transport taken.

The defence would further continue with its cross examination on September 7.

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