'The Sheena Bora Case' book review: Mother of all crimes

Such was the frenzy around the case involving the murder of a good-looking young girl, obviously from a high-income group, allegedly by her mother, who was a queen of Mumbai's high society

The Sheena Bora Case

Manish Pachouly

Roli Books

230 pages; Rs 395

In my time as a journalist, I was a silent witness to fair amount of shouting, some of it directed at me. One of the fiercest was when the editor of the newspaper where I worked at the time let it rip — not at me, praise the Lord! — when the edition had a poor coverage of the Sheena Bora murder case.

This was the second half of 2015. The editor was an otherwise reasonable man, whose usual tool of team management was wanton sarcasm, not shouting. But that day,