Mumbai: In the latest development, Mumbai Police which is investigating the high profile Sheena Bora murder case claimed on Friday night that they have recovered the hired car in which she was strangulated to death.


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“The car used to take Sheena's body to Raigad has been traced to a third-party owner,” a police officer said.


According to media reports, the car was traced to an owner in Vashi area here, whose statement would be recorded soon.


The police today claimed to have recovered a silver colour Optra car MH 01 2605, which was sold to several dealers after it was used in killing Sheena Bora.


Meanwhile, cops also said that Indrani applied lipstick and combed the hairs of Sheena's corpse so that no one could suspect foul play.


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Investigators probing the alleged murder of Sheena Bora had earlier said that accused Indrani Mukerjea and and her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna allegedly placed her body between them on the rear seat of the rented vehicle as they drove from Mumbai to Raigad to dump it there.


In another major development, the digital superimposition of the profile of Sheena Bora has matched with the skull recovered from a forest in the neighbouring Raigad district, Mumbai police said today, and maintained it has not yet given a "clean chit" to former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea in the case.


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Earlier in the day, Indrani, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, her husband and former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea, and others who have come under the investigators' scanner faced a day-long interrogation.


Peter and Indrani's daughter Vidhie Mukerjea was also questioned at Khar police station in Mumbai.


Yesterday, the police had claimed that Indrani confessed to murdering Sheena and that they were probing the financial transactions of Indrani and Peter.


Moving swiftly in the past few days, police have so far questioned Peter, his brother Gautam, Sheena's ex-lover Rahul Mukherjea, Mikhail, the car rental agency official, a petrol pump attendant near Raigad and a streetside suitcase vendor in Dadar.


Police traced the streetside vendor from whom Indrani and Rai bought two suitcases worth Rs 5,000, one of which was used to dump Sheena's body and the other allegedly kept ready for Mikhail.


Presently, Indrani, Khanna and Rai are on extended police custody till September 5.


Ealier, a Criminal Investigation Department team also visited the forests near Gagode village in Raigad district, around 95 km south of Mumbai, where the accused trio burnt and disposed of Sheena's body on the late evening of April 24, 2012.


(With Agency inputs)