<p>Indrani Mukerjea on Wednesday told a special CBI court that she was beaten up in jail and threatened with sexual assault for protesting against the cold-blooded murder of fellow inmate Manjula Shetye.<br /><br />Indrani, 44, appeared before Additional Sessions Judge J C Jagdale, who presides over a special CBI court, and narrated the sequence of events inside Byculla jail last week that led to a mass protest. <br /><br />Five constables and a jailer in Byculla prison have been booked for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing Manjula. Indrani had been charged with instigating the protest and rioting along with 200 other prisoners. <br /><br />The CBI court ordered to take Indrani for a medical examination at the Sir JJ Hospital and later to the Nagpada police station to file her complaint. <br /><br />In an application filed by Indrani’s lawyer Gunjan Mangla before the CBI court, she also assured that she would give a statement to a Magistrate under the provisions of CRPC section 164, which, unlike a police statement, is admissible in court. <br /><br />“On Friday, I saw jail officials dragging Manjula Shetye by her hair with a sari wrapped around her neck. The officials inserted a stick inside her private parts. The male officers then took her to the hospital. The next day, I learned that Manjula had died,” she claimed. <br /><br />Indrani said: “They threatened me saying they will do the same thing that they did to Manjula.”<br /><br />Indrani is wife of former Star India CEO and media mogul Peter Mukerjea and was jailed for murdering her daughter Sheena Bora in 2012.</p>
<p>Indrani Mukerjea on Wednesday told a special CBI court that she was beaten up in jail and threatened with sexual assault for protesting against the cold-blooded murder of fellow inmate Manjula Shetye.<br /><br />Indrani, 44, appeared before Additional Sessions Judge J C Jagdale, who presides over a special CBI court, and narrated the sequence of events inside Byculla jail last week that led to a mass protest. <br /><br />Five constables and a jailer in Byculla prison have been booked for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing Manjula. Indrani had been charged with instigating the protest and rioting along with 200 other prisoners. <br /><br />The CBI court ordered to take Indrani for a medical examination at the Sir JJ Hospital and later to the Nagpada police station to file her complaint. <br /><br />In an application filed by Indrani’s lawyer Gunjan Mangla before the CBI court, she also assured that she would give a statement to a Magistrate under the provisions of CRPC section 164, which, unlike a police statement, is admissible in court. <br /><br />“On Friday, I saw jail officials dragging Manjula Shetye by her hair with a sari wrapped around her neck. The officials inserted a stick inside her private parts. The male officers then took her to the hospital. The next day, I learned that Manjula had died,” she claimed. <br /><br />Indrani said: “They threatened me saying they will do the same thing that they did to Manjula.”<br /><br />Indrani is wife of former Star India CEO and media mogul Peter Mukerjea and was jailed for murdering her daughter Sheena Bora in 2012.</p>
