Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukerjea and her co-accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, today filed a bail application in the sessions court in Mumbai contending that the investigators have failed to find any possible motive to commit the crime on his part.

"It will come up for hearing on Saturday," said his lawyer Shreyansh Mithare.

The application states that Khanna has been wrongly implicated in the case.

'After reading the chargesheet, the role which is attributed to Khanna cannot be held sufficient to implicate him in the alleged murder....It isn't the prosecution case that he has strangulated Sheena,' it says.

Nor does the chargesheet suggests that he benefited from the crime and none of the witnesses has explained what motive Khanna could have had, the bail plea says.

The bail application also says that Khanna was in Mumbai on the day of the murder only to meet his daughter Vidhie.

'(Khanna) had only come to Mumbai because Indrani had called him so that he could take Vidhie to Kolkata for a few days to spend some time with his family and celebrate the his birthday. But he could not meet Vidhie as Indrani wanted to go to Kolkata herself first and 'inspect' his family environment to decide if Vidhie would be comfortable staying with Khanna and his family, it says.

Khanna has also denied the CBI's allegation that he tried to access Sheena's email account.

'On seeing the emails, he duly forwarded them to Indrani without sensing any wrongdoing,' the bail application says.

He was implicated solely on the basis of the fact that he had met Indrani Mukerjea during the period when the alleged murder took place, it says.