CBI given nod to apply lie-detector test on Peter Mukerjea

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday was given the permission to conduct lie-detector test on former media baron Peter Mukerjea after he was found to be evasive. On Friday, Peter was grilled for 5 hours by the CBI to ascertain whether funds allegedly siphoned off from the media house founded by him and Indrani Mukerjea were parked in an overseas account of Sheena Bora which resulted in a dispute between Indrani and her daughter.

They said the agency confronted Peter with the Income Tax returns filed by him and Indrani to ascertain their various investments in India and abroad. However, the agency sources said that his lie-detection test is being conducted to evaluate whether he is speaking truth or misleading the agency.

Sheena (24), Indrani's daughter from an earlier marriage, was allegedly killed by her mother, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai in April 2012. While seeking custody of Peter from Mumbai special court, CBI has claimed before a Mumbai court that he has told the agency that accounts might have been opened in the name of Sheena by Indrani in banks in Hongkong and Singapore.

According to CBI, the couple's company 9X Media Pvt Ltd carried out its internal audit in which nine companies having shareholding as on March 2009 were found to have instances of misallocation and siphoning of substanial amounts of funds by Peter and Indrani.