MUMBAI: Maharashtra government on Friday transferred the probe into Sheena Bora murder case to the CBI stating that the move will ensure that no state government officer is involved with the investigations.

Sheena Bora case is not a simple case of murder, but there are financial links to the murder, Maharashtra's additional chief secretary (Home) KP Bakshi told reporters while making this announcement.

"There could be economic links to the murder and hence a complete and detailed probe was needed," he said.

"This decision will ensure that no state government officer will be linked to the probe," KP Bakshi said, slamming certain sections of the media for intentionally conveying an impression that the state government was interfering with the investigations.

"It is now for the Centre to accept our request and if we get the nod we will hand over all the papers to the CBI," he said.

The senior state government official once again denied that the transfer of former Mumbai police chief Rakesh Maria was linked to the murder probe.

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He also said that the present Mumbai top cop Ahmed Javed was not interested in probing the case.

It was reported on Thursday that Ahmed Javed had admitted that he knew the Mukerjeas socially.

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Sheena was murdered on April 24, 2012, and her body was burnt and disposed of in the forest in Raigad district the next day.

Apart from Sheena's mother Indrani, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamver Rai were arrested in the case and are now in judicial custody after being interrogated for 14 days by the police.

Maria, who personally interrogated the accused and others including Indrani's husband Peter Mukerjea , was shunted from the post earlier this month by promoting him as DG (Home Guards) and brought in DG-rank officer Ahmad Javed in his place.

The Government, however, announced the same evening that Maria will continue to supervise the probe in the case, though it dragged on defining the actual role of the high profile officer who was reportedly unwilling to take up the responsibility.