When Sheena and Mikhail learned about her mother and moved to Mumbai in 2006, Indrani introduced them as her younger siblings, concealing their identity as her children.
[17][18] Mikhail Bora later alleged that Indrani had him forcibly committed to a mental institution and tortured for a month in 2006 to cover up her identity as his mother.
[23] Her mother, Indrani, said that Sheena had gone to the United States for higher studies and hence a missing First Information Report (FIR) was never filed.
None of Sheena's family members filed a police report to initiate a missing person investigation, despite repeated pleas to do so from Rahul.
Shyamvar Pinturam Rai, Indrani's driver, was arrested on 21 August 2015 for possession of illegal weapons and it was alleged that, during his interrogation, he revealed details of Sheena's murder.
An hour later, when Sheena was dropped off by Rahul Mukerjea near National College on Linking Road in Bandra, Indrani, Khanna, and driver Rai were there to meet her.
The police claimed that, after the murder, Sheena's body was taken to Indrani's house at Worli where it was put in a bag and stuffed in the trunk of the car.
Concerned about the possibility of police checks, they propped Sheena's body up between Indrani and Khanna on the rear seat, as if asleep, rather than putting it in the boot.
At 04:00 AM on 25 April 2012, police alleged, they dragged the body out of the car in an isolated spot in the forest, stuffed it back into the bag, poured petrol over it, and set it ablaze.
[32] Indrani was charged under sections 302 (murder), 201 (disposing evidence or giving false statements), 363 (kidnapping) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and taken to the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrates' court, which remanded her in police custody.
[33][34] On 26 August 2015, Indrani's ex-husband Sanjeev was also arrested in Kolkata and charged under sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120-B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code in the same case.
[36][37] Rai led police to a location in Raigad where he said the body had been burned and disposed of, and there some charred remains of bones, a skull, and teeth were found.
[39] In 2016, Agnidev Chatterjee directed the movie Dark Chocolate to depict a dramatised version of the Sheena Bora murder case.
On 29th February 2024, Netflix released a four-part documentary series on the case, called The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth.