India, Sept. 20 -- A day after Sheena Bora's childhood friend told a special CBI court that the 24-year-old had once spoken of renouncing worldly life to escape constant turmoil and her strained relationship with her mother Indrani Mukerjea, the same witness on Friday revealed that Sheena's fiance Rahul Mukerjea ignored legal advice to act when she went missing in April 2012.

Deposing before special CBI judge J P Darekar, witness Sanjana Phukan Raktim said her cousin, a Supreme Court lawyer, had categorically advised Rahul to lodge a missing person's complaint and even offered to file a habeas corpus petition on his behalf. "My cousin brother offered help to Rahul but he never took it," Raktim told the court during cross-examination by d...