mumbai a digital facial superimposition has confirmed that the skull recovered from pen in raigad district matches the facial features of sheena bora a critical step in building a strong murder case it is a major breakthrough we are closer to establishing that the skull and bones recovered from pen are of sheena bora once the dna results are out we will reach conclusive evidence a senior ips official told toi about the report from the civicrun byl nair hospital the nair report said the bones belonged to a woman between 20 and 25 and placed the murder between 2009 and 2012read also police wont give peter a clean chit till forensic auditing of his accounts is over the official explained that digital facial superimposition is a scientific procedure to establish the identity of a person on the basis of a skull we take digital xrays of the skull and superimpose them on the negative of a photograph of the deceased person in the present case we found that the skull completely matched with the photograph of sheena bora its a widely used technique in forensic science to identify unclaimed corpses he said toi had first reported that a facial superimposition would be carried out in its august 29 editionindrani mukerjea wife of former star india ceo peter mukerjea is accused of murdering her daughter from an earlier relationship along with coaccused sanjeev khanna her former husband and driver shyamvar rai the skull and other human skeletal remains were dug out on august 27 in pen from an area where sheenas body had been dumped three years ago after she was strangled to death in a car on april 24 2012 the charred corpse stuffed in a suitcase was found in the forested ravines near gogade khurd village over a month later and buried without an autopsy besides the skull the other remains exhumed from the raigad forest were also sent to nair hospital the byl nair hospital has submitted a comprehensive report to the mumbai police on their observations prima facie it was found that bones belonged to a woman aged between 20 and 25 said the officialread also mukerjea couple others face daylong quizzing the confidential report further said the victims height was between 153 and 160cm and the murder took place between 2009 and 2012 the age and timing of the murder fit sheenas case her birth certificate says she was born on february 11 1989 sources said now the skull and remains purported to be sheenas have been sent to the forensic science laboratory at kalina for a dna test her dna profile will be matched with those from samples collected from indrani sheenas biological father siddhartha das and her sibling mikhail bora it will conclusively prove the remains are sheenasread also police seek bank account details of mukerjea family experts at fsl remained tightlipped we are working on the samples dna has to be meticulously extracted from the cells it is not a very easy