Indrani Mukerjea’s Condition Improves, But She Is Not Out Of Danger: Doctors

Mangalore Today News Network

Mumbai 3 Oct, 2015 : Former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, who was rushed to Mumbai’s JJ Hospital on Friday afternoon from the Byculla women’s jail after she complained of "uneasiness", has shown signs of improvement but is still not out of danger, doctors attending to her have said.

 

Ms Mukerjea is accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora. She has been lodged at the Byculla jail since September 7.


Ms Mukerjea was unconscious when she was brought to hospital on Friday. TP Lahane, the Dean of JJ Hospital, said this morning that her condition improved overnight, but she is still facing difficulty in breathing.

"Her respiration is not normal until now. Until that happens, we cannot say that she is out of danger," Dr Lahane said, adding that "she is in a semi-conscious state and responding to commands." He also said that it might take her three days to recover.
Dr Lahane had said yesterday that doctors are investigating whether Ms Mukerjea overdosed on a prescription drug. Today, he said investigation reports have ruled out opiate poisoning.

Ms Mukerjea was prescribed anti-anxiety pills by a JJ hospital psychiatrist, senior police officials have said.   According to police sources, she was being given two tablets of diazepam, a sedative, every day.

"The pills were prescribed on September 11 and she was supposed to take them from September 12 to 26," Inspector General (Prisons) Bipin Kumar Singh said. The probe will seek to ascertain whether she had accumulated the pills beyond the prescribed limit, he added.

Indrani’s mother Durga Rani Bora died in Guwahati on Thursday evening. She was 82. No one from her family visited Ms Mukerjea at the hospital last night.

Ms Mukerjea, 43, was arrested in August and has been lodged at the Byculla jail since September 7 when she was remanded in judicial custody.

Sheena Bora, 24, was killed in 2012. The Mumbai Police has accused her mother, Indrani, step-father Sanjeev Khanna, and a driver of hatching a criminal conspiracy to murder Sheena, abducting and murdering her and disposing of her half-burnt body in a forest in Raigad, about 80 km from Mumbai.

During her lifetime, Ms Bora was presented by her mother as a younger sister.
Mr Khanna, a Kolkata businessman, and Ms Mukerjea’s driver were also arrested and are lodged at the Arthur Road Prison. Ms Mukerjea’s husband, Peter Mukerjea, a former CEO of Star India, has been questioned several times by the police in the case.

 

 

Courtesy:NDTV