Netflix puts Indrani Mukerjea docuseries on hold, to arrange screening for CBI

Streaming platform Netflix on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that its documentary series on the former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, who is accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, will not be aired until further notice, The Indian Express reported.

The series, Buried Truth: The Indrani Mukerjea Story was to be released on Friday.

The court is scheduled to hear a petition seeking a stay on the documentary’s release by the Central Bureau of Investigation on February 29. Netflix’s counsel assured the High Court that the series will be screened for representatives of the law enforcement agency and the court.

Mukerjea had allegedly strangled her daughter to death in a car on April 24, 2012. Bora’s body was burnt and dumped in a forest in Maharashtra’s Raigad districte. Mukerjea was arrested in 2015.

In 2022, the Supreme Court granted Mukerjea bail noting that she had been incarcerated for six and a half years and that the case’s trial is unlikely to be completed soon.

On Thursday, a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Justice Manjusha A Deshpande was hearing a petition submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation after a special court on Tuesday rejected its request to stay the series from airing.

The agency told the Bombay High Court that the makers of the documentary had interviewed five witnesses in the...

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