India, Oct. 9 -- Former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, embroiled in controversy due to her alleged role in the Sheena Bora murder, withdrew her petition seeking to cancel an FIR which accused her of inciting the 2017 riots at the Byculla jail after the brutal murder of inmate Manjula Shetye.

Mukerjea had filed the petition in 2022, but nearly three years later, the court had yet not circulated it for hearing. Instead, a division bench of justices AS Gadkari and RR Bhonsale said that Mukerjea could drop her petition and appeal at the magistrate for not having taken notice of it.

Mukerjea, in and out of the media spotlight, was imprisoned at the Byculla jail, after she allegedly strangled her daughter, Shina Bora in April 2012 with the...