Mumbai: The CBI moved a special court seeking a stay on the Netflix documentary series on Indrani Mukerjea, the main accused in Sheena Bora murder case, PTI reported.
In its Saturday plea, the central probe agency asked the court "to issue direction to accused and other concerned for staying/stopping the featuring of the accused persons and the persons connected with the case in the documentary by Netflix and its broadcasting on any platform till the conclusion of the ongoing trial".
Netflix's docu-series, titled 'The Indrani Mukerjea Story: The Buried Truth', features the disappearance of 25-year-old Bora. The is scheduled to be premiered on the platform on February 23,
Special CBI court Judge SP Naik-Nimbalkar issued notices to Netflix Entertainment Services India and others for their response to the probe agency's application. The court listed a hearing on the plea for February 20.
The 24-year-old Sheena Bora was found dead and charred in a forest in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. She was allegedly strangled to death in a car by Indrani Mujkerjea, Mukerjea's driver Shyamvar Rai and Mukerjea's husband Sanjeev Khanna in April 2012.
However, the murder came to light only three years later, in 2015, when the driver, Shyamvar Rai, confessed following his arrest in another case. Indrani was arrested in August 2015 and granted bail in May 2022. His alleged accomplices in the case, Rai and Khanna, are also out on bail.