The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/supreme-court-closes-criminal-proceedings-against-ashoka-university-professor-ali-khan-mahmudabad-23621139" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Supreme Court</a> has granted an additional nine months to complete the trial in the Sheena Bora murder case, making it clear that no further extensions will be allowed, reported the PTI.
The order was passed on March 16 by a bench comprising Justice M M Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh.
The extension was granted after a request from the Special Judge of the CBI court at the City Civil and Sessions Court in Mumbai, seeking more time to conclude the long-pending trial.
The Supreme Court accepted the request but stressed that no further plea for extension would be entertained.
The court also allowed Indrani Mukerjea to file a fresh application seeking permission to travel abroad, according to the PTI.
Her former husband, Peter Mukerjea, remains a co-accused in the case.
<h2>Background of the case</h2>
Sheena Bora, 24, was allegedly murdered in April 2012.
<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/71-year-old-retired-official-duped-of-rs-1-05-crore-in-digital-arrest-scam-mumbai-police-launches-probe-23621379" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Mumbai Police</a> had earlier said that she was strangled in a car by Indrani Mukerjea, her driver Shyamvar Rai, and another accused, Sanjeev Khanna.
Her body was later burnt and disposed of in a forest in Raigad.
The murder remained unknown until 2015, when Shyamvar Rai revealed details of the crime after being arrested in another case.
Following this, Indrani Mukerjea and Sanjeev Khanna were arrested in August 2015, while Peter Mukerjea was arrested later that year.
Media baron Peter Mukerjea, ex-husband of Indrani, is also an accused in the Sheena Bora murder case.
The murder came to light in 2015 after Rai spilled the beans about the murder following his arrest in another case.
Indrani Mukerjea and Khanna were <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/lpg-crisis-beed-police-in-maharashtra-raids-house-recovers-29-cylinders-illegally-stored-for-suspected-black-marketing-23620913" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">arrested</a> in August 2015, while Peter Mukerjea was arrested three months later.
The trial in the case began in February 2017 after the framing of charges against all the accused. There are 237 prosecution witnesses, out of which over 90 have been examined by the court so far.
<h2>Accused currently on bail</h2>
All the accused in the case are currently out on bail as the trial continues.
The Supreme Court&rsquo;s latest order is expected to expedite proceedings in one of India&rsquo;s most high-profile <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-to-reconcile-immigration-data-to-track-overstaying-foreigners-visa-rule-violations-cm-devendra-fadnavis-23621212" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">criminal cases</a>.
(with PTI inputs)

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