The Mumbai Police has reached Silchar in Assam to question Shantanu Das, brother of Indrani Mukerjea’s ex-husband and Sheena Bora’s father Siddharth Das.

Shantanu Das has expressed shock over Sheena’s death and confirmed she was his brother Siddharth’s daughter.

Siddharth has been missing since last ten years.

The other two murder accused Sanjeev Khanna and Indrani’s driver Shyamvar Rai have been taken to the Raigad spot where the body remains, allegedly of Sheena, have been found. The TV channel claims that the police have recovered syringes at the alleged crime scene.

In another twist in the case, Indrani Mukerjea’s son Mikhail Bora is believed to have been the next target after his sister was brutally murdered.

The sensational Sheena Bora murder case took another turn on Sunday when police seized a suitcase that was purportedly meant for packing the body of her brother, whom Indrani Mukherjea had allegedly planned to kill, even as key accused Sanjeev Khanna and the driver were taken to spot to re-create the crime scene.

Officials were tightlipped about the progress in the probe amidst reports that Indrani and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna had been making contradictory claims about who killed her daughter Sheena three years ago.

The new twist in the probe came when Sheena’s brother Mikhail claimed that their mother Indrani had planned to kill him too on April 23, 2012, when she offered him a drink laced with sedatives.

The same day Sheena was allegedly killed by Indrani and Khanna in a car with the help of the driver Shyam Rai. The three had carried the body and disposed it in Pen tehsil in Raigad district the next day.

The seizure of the suitcase from residential premises of Indrani and Peter Mukerjea in Mumbai’s Worli area apparently lends credence to Mikhail’s claim about his mother’s plan to kill him and pack his body parts but there was no police confirmation of this theory.

On Sunday, police brought Sanjeev Khanna to Khar police station and later took him to forest in Pen tehsil, along with Rai.

Indrani, Khanna and Rai will be produced before a local court on Monday where the police is likely to seek extension of their custody.

During sustained interrogation on Saturday, Indrani and Sanjeev had blamed each other for the crime. Indrani accused Khanna of committing the murder and dragging her into the crime. However, he said he only assisted Indrani as she had promised to help him financially.

Mikhail was also questioned at a hotel in Bandra on Saturday.

Kuwait Airways has said that its flight from Kuwait to Mumbai made an emergency landing at the Kuwait Airport following a bird crashing into the plane’s cockpit.

The flight KU301 returned to the airport and passengers were switched to an alternative aircraft to resume their flight earlier last week, Kuwait News Agency, KUNA, reported.

Birds crashing into planes usually pose an element of danger, with some recorded yet rare incidents where such accidents had resulted in fatalities.

However, 65 per cent of bird strikes cause just superficial damage to the plane, the report said.

In a gruesome incident, unidentified robbers chopped of the finger of a woman on which she was wearing a gold ring and fled with it here, police said.

The incident occurred on August 24 when the 54-year-old victim was travelling in a local bus, Assistant Police Inspector (API) Sharaddha Vaidande of Thane Nagar Police Station said.

The robbers sprayed some poisonous chemical on her finger after which it became numb and immediately chopped it. They fled away with her 5 gram gold ring worth Rs 10,000, the woman was wearing in that finger, the API said.

According to the official, the woman was admitted to a local hospital and discharged on August 28.

Following her complaint, a case under section 326A (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid ) and 329 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act) of IPC has been registered against unidentified persons and investigations are underway, they added.

The first ever ambulance watch tower in the state was inaugurated in the district by Yuva Sena Chief Aditya Thackeray.

The tower was inaugurated at the Vashi toll post by Aditya Thackeray, in the presence of Public Works Minister and Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde.

In his speech Aditya profusely thanked Shinde for readily accepting the suggestion made by him to set up a watch tower for ambulances and urged him to set up many more such towers in the state as well.

The ambulance watch towers are meant to keep tabs on the movement of ambulances with critical patients and make easy routes available to them.

In his speech Shinde said that a tall tower will be set up at toll booths from where ambulances can be spotted and a green corridor could be created for their movement.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama arrived at the piligrimage town of Trimbakeshwar, near on Sunday.

He held discussions with mahants of various akhadas, presently gathered in the town for Kumbh Mela.

He was accompanied by Swami Sharananand, Swami Parmanand and Swami Gyananand.

Interacting with reporters after a tree planting programme at Karni Ashram, the spiritual leader said, “I look at India as a land of ‘sarvadharmasambhav’ (an equal regard for all religions), where people of all religions are safe and make progress”.

Striking FTII students were awaiting a feedback from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry after the August 21 visit of its three-member delegation which held talks with various stakeholders to end the now 80-day stir, even as demonstrations remained subdued on the campus.

The protesting students have been demanding removal of BJP member and TV actor Gajendra Chauhan from the post of chairman of the Governing Council of Film & Television Institute of India.

Kindling the hopes of a resolution of the long-drawn agitation by the students that raised the issue of an alleged saffronisation of various national academic institutions and their autonomy, the delegation led by S M Khan had held discussions with FTII students, faculty and staff. The discussions was later described as “satisfactory” by all stakeholders.

However, the committee which was expected to submit its report to the Ministry last week, was yet to do so, according to the faculty and representatives of the FTII Students’ Association (FSA).

“We now hear that the Khan Committee which gave us a patient hearing with a positive outlook is likely to table its report in next couple of days — Monday or Tuesday,” an FSA representative Ameya Gore said.

The acting dean of FTII Sandip Chatterjee said, “We expect the committee to submit its report early next week.”

Apart from a stand on the students’ demands, which include removal of Chauhan and four members of the FTII body, who allegedly lack “credentials and status”, the I&B committee is also expected to make known its stand on the controversial police complaint filed by FTII director Prashant Pathrabe that led to the arrests of five students involved in his gherao recently.