Overview
- Indrani Mukerjea, who is on bail in the Sheena Bora case, was refused two weeks of overseas travel on Friday by a special CBI court in Mumbai.
- Special Judge J P Darekar said only a few witnesses remain and called the trial’s stage the “fag end,” warning that leave now could slow a near-term conclusion.
- Mukerjea argued she faces severe money trouble and needs to reactivate long-dormant bank accounts in the UK and Spain and update a will in Malaga.
- The CBI said a named attorney, Pablo Iturmendi Kustner, can handle those tasks, and the court noted she showed no records of booking with banks or local offices.
- The order questioned her hardship claim after a Rs 2 lakh court deposit and highlighted her UK citizenship and properties abroad as absconding risks, recalling that higher courts have earlier rejected similar travel bids.