'Papa there is something going on': Rahul Mukerjea's tapes expose the web of lies around Sheena Bora's murder

A set of taped conversations have thrown new light on the sensational new developments in the Sheena Bora murder case.

The taped conversations, allegedly between prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, her husband Peter Mukerjea and his son Rahul Mukerjea seem to indicated an attempt to cover up the Sheena Bora murder case.

These tapes were allegedly recorded over a period of two weeks, apparently right after Sheena was murdered. We look at some of the suspicious conversations.

ABOUT THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER

TAPE 13

Rahul builds a timeline of Sheena's disappearance, tries to convince Peter that something wasn't right

"Sheena sent me a message when she left Taj Lands End, around 8:30 in the evening on the 24th. And that message is saying that she is on the way to Royal China for dinner... Basically saying just left Taj Lands End, heading to Royal China for dinner. I phoned up Royal China and they were open on that night, they weren't closed. So something has changed the plan between Taj Lands end from heading towards Royal China, which is what Sheena obviously thought she was doing. Now apparently she was dropped off at Amar Sons an hour later at 9:30 pm. Papa there is something going on that is not right... you know it as well."

Peter appears to be silent for a few seconds before saying "Indrani said "we drove past Royal China and it was shut."" Rahul informs Peter that Royal China went through their bookings and there was no booking of Sheena or Indrani or Mukerjee or any Bora but they were definitely open and had other guests. He asks Peter and Indrani to speak to people from Royal China.

Indrani - initially heard speaking in the background - takes over to give the "sequence of events". According to her:

At 6:30 pm, Sheena comes to Amar Sons, buys a saree, post which she and Indrani go to a jeweller (Notandas) opposite Moti Mahal. Post that, while heading towards Taj Lands Ends, they cross Royal China and find it shut. She also claims to call the restaurant but gets no response. She says Sheena needed to be back at Amar Sons by 9:15 so they left Taj Lands End between quarter to 9 or 9 or 9:15. She adds that she was back home by quarter to 10.

She also mentions Mikhail in the conversation - saying he was a guest who had flown in from outside - and was a "dear friend". It has now been revealed that Mikhail is her son.

The Royal China mystery

Rahul continues to prod Indrani asking, if Royal China was open or shut - Indrani insists it was shut and later asks him to confirm what time they open. Initially, Indrani says they would have crossed Royal China at least by 7:30 pm, but minutes later she says "it must have been around 7:15 when we went to Taj". Rahul seems to catch this and asks Indrani to reconfirm their timing. "I don't know," replies Indrani before attempting to build a timeline.

Her timing on crossing Royal China changes again towards the end, saying it was shut when they left Amar Sons around quarter to 7.

More discrepancies

Another discrepancy - which Rahul catches too - is Indrani's version from the saree shop. Initially she says Sheena tried 6-7 sarees and later she says 3-4 sarees.

Note that Indrani had earlier claimed that Sheena reached Amar Sons at 6:30 pm, but later in the conversation, she says she has a message from Sheena at 6:15 pm that she had reached. Throughout her explanation on the sequence of events, Indrani remains pretty liberal with her timelines - while she initially says it took them 15 minutes at the saree shop, she changes that to half an hour towards the end of the clip.

Towards the end of the conversation, Rahul tells Indrani there was no point in giving "silly examples," to which Indrani says "I don't know about Sheena's disappearance."

Indrani keeps insisting she has nothing to hide, "I don't want you to sit there and think that I am hiding something," she says. Later Peter takes over the call saying he or Indrani had nothing more to say and Rahul was free to do his own investigations.

The map below negates Indrani Mukerjea's entire timeline, factoring in the amount of time it'll take for her to reach from Amarsons to Taj Lands End.

TAPE 17, PART 1

Peter Mukherjea tells Rahul, Sheena is okay, gives vague details

Peter begins the call with insisting Sheena is okay. "Indrani said, will you please speak to jiju and say that you're fine. She said, jiju, hi, I'm fine... and you know..." (Doesn't complete sentence)

Rahul goes on to question Peter if he asked her to get in touch with one of her friends, or if he remembered if Sheena was calling from a landline or a mobile. Replying in the negative, Peter says Sheena asked not to give her number to Rahul and that he called Rahul just to calm his mind.

He adds that they've "sent a message to Mukerjee, saying she will send her resignation or whatever in due course."

WHAT PETER SAID

TAPE 17, PART 2

Rahul refuses to believe a single claim from Peter about being in touch with Sheena

Rahul continues to prod Peter - "did she call on your mobile or Indrani's phone or what?" She called on Indrani's mobile, responded Peter. "I was sending the message to you to close this chapter... and when I came upstairs, Indrani was on the phone and she said Sheena just called."

Rahul doesn't seem convinced. "So she just called to say she's okay? She just called right now, out of the blue to say she's okay?"

Peter then reiterates he spoke to Sheena.

Peter claims to have shown Rahul messages he had received from Sheena on the morning of April 26, but his son refuses to have any recollection of such an exchange. Peter then changes his claim to "Well, I did read it out to you that's for sure."

But Rahul remains unconvinced and stresses on how easy it will be for Indrani to fake the whole communication and how all these developments were "too convenient".

"Use your dimaag man. Hello papa I love you but you're pushing my limits here man."

Peter continues to ask Rahul to put the chapter to rest.

TAPE 2

Peter Mukerjea appears completely uninterested in Sheena Bora's disappearance

Rahul Mukerjea urges his dad to take note of Sheena's uncharacteristic behaviour of being missing from work without informing anyone. "She has never missed a day in work in last three years for once without informing. Now she's been gone for more than 2-3 days and she hasn't informed anyone. This is why it's out of character. Can you hear what I'm saying and take it in?"

Peter seems to completely dismiss his concern suggesting "let them inform whoever that she's not come to work." He also dismisses her inactivity on social media as "intentional".

Rahul also points that Sheena was supposed to collect a dongle and a blackberry from Peter's ex-head of security and that she met Indrani about it.

WHAT INDRANI SAID

TAPE 8, PART 1

Indrani insists Sheena's run away with someone and the crime branch chief has helped her reach this conclusion

Indrani claims to Rahul that Sheena gave her a "story about some Nagpur" guy, but she was actually in constant touch with a guy named Nishant Khurana from Delhi. She suggests Sheena has vanished or "wants to run away" with Khurana, saying her and Peter were concerned since Sheena had Rs 40,000 cash on her.

She claims that according to the crime branch chief, Sheena was definitely at the domestic airport at about 11 in the morning, before which she was talking to Khurana for an hour. "They chased down everything... from Bandra, after that she was at the airport," she says.

Rahul says this means Sheena has a plan and seems to be doing okay, but Indrani insists it means gone somewhere and she's with somebody. "At least we are not feeling like fools, all of us are not sitting and fighting here, no?"

TAPE 8, PART 2

Peter tells Rahul to take the whole episode as a lesson and carry on

Peter takes over and tells Rahul he will get more information as soon anything comes in. Rahul says "at least he can now deal with his own thing in his head."

Peter can be heard chuckling, saying, "here's your thing to learn about what you're getting into." He asks Rahul to carry on and plan his life.

He also asks Rahul to assume the worst, since Sheena was talking to someone for about an hour and he didn't know who the guy was. Rahul is quick to dismiss Peter - "no, no, not necessarily... you talk to friends for lengthy periods if something is going on."

He refuses to get into conjecture saying, "Sheena won't stay incommunicado forever, right?"

"I'll still wait for her," he says.

TAPE 8, Part 3

I think we should all have a good night sleep, says Indrani

Indrani takes over and ask Rahul to get some rest. She insists that Sheena gave her some "Nagpur bullshit" and now that it's turned out to be a completely different guy, they should all give it a rest and get "a good night sleep."

Indrani says she will inform Sheena's office as well.

TAPE 5

Indrani claims it was about the money, asks Rahul to wait to hear from the police

Indrani says according to Sheena's HR, she informed him she was going out of town, but they did not receive a formal resignation.

While Rahul seems non-confrontational, he raises questions like, "if you think about it, she's been working somewhere for the last few years, right? And she's been in a relationship for the last few years. Now, suddenly she's gone off with some guy and left her job, and also her relationship.... not told anybody, is unreachable, her friends don't know, the person she's been living with doesn't know..."

"We have to find her, bring her back and do things properly, no?" he says.

Indrani insists Sheena might be ignoring messages on Facebook intentionally and that there's nothing more for them to do at the point. "We have approached the highest possible person available here... we have to give a little bit of time (for more details)," she said. She also claimed that Sheena can be located no matter where she re-locates.

Rahul reiterates they need to speak to her or hear from her and know that she's okay. "I can't believe Sheena's done this in this manner... it is so unlike her," he says.

Indrani responds in agreement. She claims Peter found it odd that Sheena had contacted her. She adds that Peter had been hearing the conversations going on and was of the opinion that Sheena was hiding the truth. She suggests that whole thing was about money, since Sheena had disappeared soon after she took money from Indrani.

Rahul defends Sheena again, towards the end, saying "it's possible she is being held by somebody against her will in Nagpur, we don't know, you know?" Indrani agrees and hangs up saying she was getting a call from Indrani's boss.