Sapna seeks Modi's backing to sue Scottish authorities over false murder accusation
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Updated · BBC.com · May 4
Sapna seeks Modi's backing to sue Scottish authorities over false murder accusation
5 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 4
She says Sougat Mukherjee, arrested in Mumbai in 2015 over Glasgow's 1997 Tracey Wilde murder, died in 2023 after severe depression and financial ruin.
Sapna is seeking compensation from Police Scotland and prosecutors, plus an Indian government inquiry into why her husband remained under suspicion for years despite a DNA mismatch.
Mukherjee was officially exonerated in 2019 after Zhi Min Chen admitted the killing; Scottish authorities declined to comment beyond earlier statements on reviewing evidence and legal thresholds.
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Seeking Justice After 19 Years: Sapna Mukherjee’s Appeal to India Over Scotland’s Investigative Failures
Overview
In 1997, Tracey Wylde was tragically murdered in Glasgow, but Police Scotland's flawed investigation wrongly targeted Sougat Mukherjee based on weak circumstantial evidence and failed to use DNA evidence effectively for nearly two decades. This led to years of trauma, financial ruin, and social ostracism for Mukherjee and his family. The real killer, Zhi Min Chen, was identified in 2016 through a DNA match and convicted in 2017, officially exonerating Mukherjee. Despite this, further guilty pleas related to the case and Mukherjee's death in 2023 prompted his wife, Sapna Mukherjee, to appeal to the Indian government in 2026 for legal support and an independent inquiry, but no official response has been received.