Indrani Mukerjea on Tuesday filed an application in a special Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) Court claiming that she was thrashed and severely assaulted by Byculla jail officials. The former HR consultant and media entrepreneur is the prime accused in the murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora.
"She was beaten up pursuant of the said killing by the Superintendent and the Byculla jail officials. Further, she informed that she was verbally abused by the jail officials and the superintendent and was threatened of sexual assault for protesting against the cold-blooded murder in custody," Indrani states in her plea.
The application will be taken up by the court on Wednesday.
It comes a day after Mumbai Police, probing the murder of a life imprisonment convict inside Byculla jail, recorded the statements of Mukerjea and some other inmates. In her statement, Mukerjea had reportedly told the investigators that the 45-year-old victim died after being sexually assaulted by the jailer and five others.
According to reports, a baton was inserted in the victim's private parts by the jailer named Manisha Pokharkar. The medical reports are yet to confirm the allegations, but six jail officials, including Manisha, have been suspended.
The victim died at a government hospital on June 23. The next day, enraged women inmates rose in protest, some of them went up to the prison's roof, while others made a bonfire of newspapers and documents inside the premises to express their anger.
CCTV footage shows Indrani on the prison's roof and rioting along with other inmates. Officials have told NDTV that she urged prisoners to use their children to shield themselves from jail officials.
Mukerjea and nearly 200 inmates of the Byculla jail have been booked by Mumbai Police for rioting and criminal conspiracy.
"If she is found involved in the incident pursuant to the investigation being carried out by the police and prison authorities, necessary action will follow," Mukerjea's lawyer Gunjan Mangla told NDTV.
