Indian Embassy in Kabul not aware of Sushmita's return to Afghanistan says Khurshid

Khurshid said that soon after the incident, the Embassy had established contact with the local Afghan authorities and ascertained the details.

“Ambassador Amar Sinha spoke on telephone to the husband of Sushmita. The Embassy was in touch with her brother in West Bengal,” he said.

Investigation into the murder was continuing and the Indian Embassy was pursuing the case with Afghan authorities, Khurshid said.

Banerjee's book “Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou” (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife), about her escape from the Taliban in 1995, became a bestseller in India and was made into the Bollywood film “Escape From Taliban” in 2003.

A renegade Taliban militia, the suicide group of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, had taken responsibility for killing Banerjee, claiming she was an “Indian spy”.