On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the CBI’s answer to Indrani Mukerjea’s appeal against a Bombay High Court decision that barred her from traveling outside because she is suspected of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora.
After a special court on July 19 granted Mukerjea’s request to travel to Spain and the UK for 10 days over the following three months, the issue of travel restrictions reached the Supreme Court.
The CBI challenged a special court order passed by the high court, which was quashed on September 27. Mukerjea, a British citizen, appealed against the high court order.
In her plea filed through advocate Sana Raees Khan, Mukerjea said she was a British citizen as she sought permission to visit Spain and her home country for “making necessary changes and amendments and taking care of pending work which cannot be transacted without her personal presence”.
She argued the activation of a digital certificate was a must for all relevant work and administration in Spain and her physical presence was mandatory.
According to the high court’s ruling, Mukerjea wanted to travel overseas since she was a British national and needed to complete paperwork pertaining to her bank account and other tasks in Spain and the UK.
The high court noted that if Mukerjea wanted to carry out these tasks from India, the statutory authorities back home would provide her with the support she needed, with the help of the British and Spanish embassies, while overturning the special court’s judgment.
In August 2015, Mukerjea was taken into custody following the discovery of Bora’s murder. In May 2022, the Supreme Court granted her bail. She denied the accusations.
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