Financial transaction was the motive behind Sheena Bora’s murder, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a Mumbai court on Monday.

The CBI also told the court that Peter Mukerjea had disclosed during questioning investments made by him and wife Indrani in UK and India but not source of money.

On the other hand, Mumbai court extended till November 26 CBI custody of Peter in the murder case.

The CBI had sought an additional ten days remand for former Star TV CEO, who has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy in connection with the Sheena murder case.

Previously, the CBI had said that while it had earlier booked Peter Mukerjea under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he had also been additionally charged under Sections 302 and 364, and would be prosecuted accordingly.

It had said that four serious charges had been levelled against him.

Earlier, on November 21, in a sensational chargesheet filed by the CBI, it was revealed that besides the financial dispute, the motive behind her murder could have been her ‘relationship’ with Peter Mukerjea’s son, Rahul.

In the chargesheet, the agency had said that the prime accused in the high profile murder case, Indrani Mukerjea, was not happy with the love affair of Rahul and Sheena.

It also stated that Rahul met Sheena at Peter’s house and their friendship grew into love.

In 2008, Sheena told Rahul that she was in fact Indrani’s daughter.

Indrani who did not approve the love affair quarrelled with Sheena and sent her to Guwahati and later, Delhi.

The Bombay High Court extended till November 26 the interim bail granted to four corporators of the adjoining Thane city who had sought anticipatory bail in the suicide case of builder Suraj Parmar.

Justice A S Gadkari asked the four corporators of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) – Vikrant Chavan (Congress), Najib Mulla, Hanumant Jagdale (both NCP) and Sudhakar Chavan (independent) – to file a rejoinder on November 26 to a government affidavit which opposed their bail plea on the ground that they were not cooperating with police in the probe and that their custodial interrogation was required.

A vacation bench of the HC had earlier granted them interim bail on November 3 on a surety of Rs. one lakh each. They were asked to deposit their mobile phones and passports with Thane police. The corporators were also directed not to enter the TMC premises until further court orders.

Parmar, a leading Thane-based builder, had shot himself on October 7. His suicide note alleged that a nexus of corporators and officials was harassing him for bribes.

The Thane police had registered a case of ‘abetment to suicide’ and for offences of criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act after a notebook left by Parmar in his car revealed their names as the ones who had allegedly harassed him.

Public prosecutor Raja Thakre said the petitioners were not cooperating with police and their mobiles were found switched-off. Besides, their names were found in the builder’s notebook.

However, the defence lawyer pleaded that the names of the corporators given in the builder’s notebook were erased (by the builder) and denied their involvement in the suicide. He said they were willing to cooperate with police in the probe. He also said that custodial interrogation of the applicants was not necessary.

The family of the deceased builder intervened to describe as baseless the allegations of Parmar committing suicide because of Rs 150 crore Income Tax liability.

Earlier, a Thane sessions court had refused to grant anticipatory bail to the corporators. Being aggrieved, they moved the High Court.

The prosecution in the 2002 hit-and-run case today opposed in the Bombay High Court Salman Khan’s application that his singer-friend Kamaal Khan, who was in the actor’s car at the time of the accident, should be examined.

Government pleader S S Shinde filed a written reply opposing Salman’s application. Justice A R Joshi would hear both the sides on the issue tomorrow.

The prosecution’s story is that Salman, Kamaal Khan and police constable Ravindra Patil (Salman’s bodyguard) were in the car on the night of September 28, 2002.

Salman’s lawyer Amit Desai, however, claimed that Salman’s family drivers also accompanied them. Altaf was in the vehicle from Galaxy Apartments (Salman’s residence) to the JW Marriott Hotel. At the hotel, another driver, Ashok Singh, took over and Singh was driving when the car had rammed into a bakery, killing one person and injuring four.

“It is not that we have not tried to get in touch with Kamaal Khan and examine him as a prosecution witness, but we could not find him….Besides, the defence could also have examined him as a defence witness if they wanted to,” Shinde told reporters.

The court’s ruling on whether Kamaal Khan should be examined at this stage would be important in deciding the course of the appeal, Shinde said.

Desai had argued that Kamaal Khan was with Salman for the entire evening and he can throw light on the incident better than anyone else but the prosecution never examined him.

But Shinde had said during the arguements that after obtaining Mumbai court’s permission to leave the country, Kamaal, a UK national, “vanished”. When the trial started before the sessions court, the prosecution could not find his whereabouts.

The Bombay High Court, hearing a public interest litigation on mushrooming of illegal temples and shrines in Maharashtra, directed all municipal corporations to file status reports every month on the issue.

The state government informed the court that there is a government resolution (GR) which prescribes action against such shrines through “regularisation, relocation or removal”.

The division bench, headed by Justice Abhay Oka, had earlier demanded a time-bound programme of demolition.

Today, it directed all the municipal corporations to file status reports on 15th of every month, giving details of steps taken against illegal shrines.

The government had issued the GR following an order passed by the Supreme Court in 2009 directing all state governments to take action against illegal shrines.

Earlier, the court had been told that as of February 1, 2015, there were 6,336 unauthorised structures in the areas under seven municipal corporations including the Mumbai civic body. Of this, 207 were regularised, 179 demolished and three relocated.

The HC had, last month, asked the government to remove, within nine months, all the illegal religious structures constructed after September 29, 2009 (after the SC order).

The Bombay High Court asked the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to ascertain how much space it requires to build night shelters which can be used by homeless people in the city.

A division bench of justices A S Oka and G S Patel asked the civic body to also identify areas in the city where the number of homeless people are more.

The corporation will have to inform the court about this next week, after which the state government will be asked to allot land to the corporation.

The High Court was earlier informed that the state government had rejected seven proposals forwarded by the civic body seeking allotment of land. The court was told that the corporation’s proposal was rejected as the land proposed to be allotted was very small in area.

The directions were passed during the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation filed by NGO ‘Homeless Collective’, highlighting the plight of pavement dwellers.

The petition has sought directions to the civic and state authorities to identify homeless persons and ensure adequate night shelters for them.

The petitioner said that for every one lakh population in a city, there should be one night shelter, as per the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM).

According to that norm, Mumbai should have 207 shelters. However, only nine night shelters are operating at the moment as against the 25 that were promised in 2012, the PIL said.

Social media platforms are enabling radicalisation, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said.

“Social media platforms are enabling radicalisation, recruitment, and networking among like-minded individuals from afar,” Verma said during his address at the Megacity Security Conference here.

“The return of foreign fighters from places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria also casts ominous shadows. More so than ever before, small groups and individuals have access to lethal and even military-grade technologies that give them the ability to attack a city’s functioning.

“India has been a model of inclusiveness,” Verma told reporters when asked why have so few Indian Muslims joined the IS.

To a query on his assessment of threat perception of the dreaded terror group to India, Verma said it is for Indian officials to address that question.

“But as President (Barack) Obama said, this is a serious threat and we intend to intensify our strategies and it will require diligent efforts from all levels,” Verma said.

For countering terrorism in mega-cities, governments must create an ecosystem of cohesion and inclusivity, the US Ambassador said.

“We have to get to the root causes of unrest. As cities grow bigger here is a potential that certain sections of population become disaffected and frustrated. So there is an importance of good governance,” he said.

The US Ambassador also spoke of India-US cooperation on terrorism front including “shutting of the terror outfits finances and networks”.

Communications and transportation networks essential to the daily livelihood in cities also can serve as enablers that allow groups to recruit and maintain networks with relative anonymity. Even smart cities, which offer the promise of a greener and more sustainable future, can be vulnerable to cyber attacks”, he said.

A 30-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her father-in-law after which he was roughed up by locals prompting him to flee his village Nikha-Gaotanpada, police said on Monday.

The incident took place on November 20, when the victim was alone at home, PSI AN Patil of Kasa police station under Jawhar division told.

When locals heard the woman scream, they came to her rescue and allegedly roughed up the accused after which he fled from the scene.

Police have launched a manhunt for the absconding accused

After registering offences under Sections 376 and 323 against him.