Mumbai: Former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea’s statement in the Sheena Bora murder case was recorded on Wednesday by police, which is understood to have quizzed his wife Indrani and the other two accused in his presence.

Mukerjea reached the Khar police station in India’s financial capital here at 10.30am to record his statement. Indrani, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna, and driver Shyam Rai, who were allegedly involved in the murder were also brought there.

The police are understood to have questioned the three accused in the presence of Peter and their counsel, in perhaps the first such confrontation since Indrani was arrested on August 24 for allegedly murdering Sheena and hiding her body in 2012.

Indrani Mukerjea is accused of killing Bora, her daughter from an earlier relationship, in 2012 over a financial dispute, with the help of her ex-husband Khanna and driver Rai.

Mukerjea had gone to the police station last week, but the Mumbai police had refused to accept a written statement from him and he was told that when the police needed, they would call him for questioning.

A local court had earlier extended the police custody of the three accused — Indrani, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyam Rai — until September 5.

Peter, who has been married to Indrani for 13 years and set up a media company with her, had first said that he was unaware that Bora was his wife’s daughter and that Indrani had introduced her to him as her sister.

A few days after Indrani’s arrest, Peter amended his version to say Bora did inform him that she was his stepdaughter, but he had no reasons to disbelieve his wife Indrani’s denial of that claim, although he found it “difficult to digest”.

He claimed that the same thing was communicated to him by his son Rahul Mukerjea, from an earlier marriage, but he had not believed him either.

Peter maintained that he vaguely remembered the date when he was told about the fact, and it was sometime in 2011.

Bora was engaged to Rahul when she was allegedly murdered on April 24, 2012.

The 24 year old was allegedly strangled in a car, then her body was burnt and dumped at a forest in Raigad, about 84km from Mumbai.

Her purported remains were found a month later and buried by the police, which treated the body as unclaimed.

For three years, Indrani told her family and friends that Bora had shifted to the US.

On Tuesday, a man claiming to be her biological father, Sidhharth Das, surfaced and said that he was not in touch with Indrani.