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  • Shraddha Walkar murder: Security beefed up outside Forensic Science Laboratory in Delhi’s Rohini

    Shraddha Walkar murder: Security beefed up outside Forensic Science Laboratory in Delhi’s Rohini

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    After a police van carrying Aaftab Poonawala was attacked on Monday, security has been beefed up outside the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Delhi’s Rohini area. Moreover, a paramilitary force has also been deployed outside the laboratory.

    Poonawala reached the laboratory for the remaining session of the polygraph test on Tuesday.

    Poonawala, accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, was attacked outside FSL where he was taken for a polygraph test on Monday. The van was attacked by a group of men outside the FSL on Monday evening. They were seen carrying swords in their hands and chasing the vehicle. The policemen stationed at the spot had to fire in the air to push away the men as they gathered near the vehicle.

    Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) G S Sidhu said, “Two persons have been detained for questioning.” The two detained have been identified as Kuldeep and Nigam, police said. A case has been registered at the Prashant Vihar Police Station in connection with the incident, police said, adding that the two detained have been sent to judicial custody.

    Poonawala, who met Shraddha Walkar on dating site and moved in together to a rented accommodation later, allegedly strangled and cut her body into 35 pieces. He stored her body parts in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli in South Delhi, before dumping them across the city over several days.

    He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, which was further extended by five days on November 17.

    On November 22, Poonawala was sent to police custody for four days. The court on November 26, sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.

    (With inputs from PTI)

    Also Read: Shraddha murder case: Two men with swords attack police van carrying Aaftab in Delhi

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  • Shraddha Walkar murder case: Polygraph test on Aaftab ends, he may undergo narco analysis

    Shraddha Walkar murder case: Polygraph test on Aaftab ends, he may undergo narco analysis

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    Aaftab Ameen Poonawala, the prime accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, on Friday, underwent a marathon polygraph test for another day. But cops said that the test could not be completed. This comes as Aaftab’s police custody has also ended on Friday even as the investigation in the case is on.

    According to the officials, the polygraph test, which lasted for nearly three hours at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), couldn’t be completed on Friday as Aaftab was unwell. Aaftab had undergone a marathon polygraph test of nearly eight hours on Thursday.

    Sagar Preet Hooda, IPS, Special Commissioner of Police, Law and Order, Zone II, said, “Polygraph test of the accused Aaftab in Mehrauli police station case FIR No 659/22 under section 365/302/201 IPC could not be held today.”

    They further added that he will undergo a medical examination today. However, officials at the facility also revealed that they found it difficult to record his statements as he was not well. A team of FSL officers is likely to hand over the report to Delhi Police in a day or two.

    According to the experts, Aaftab had co-operated with the investigators to some extent but remained largely evasive. He may undergo a narco analysis test if reports reek of discrepancies. A senior FSL official said all sessions related to the test have been completed, including the pre, main and post-stages of the procedure.

    The official said “Our forensic experts will analyse the recordings and make a report accordingly. He (Aaftab) can be called again if the experts are not satisfied with the report. Based on the outcome of the report, a decision will be taken on conducting narco analysis which can be carried out even if he is sent to judicial custody.”

    A series of questions related to the Shraddha Walkar murder case were asked in the polygraph test. Some of the questions asked in the test were the sequences of events that led to the murder, the accused’s relationship with Walkar, reason for their strained relationship, place where he dumped the body parts, type of weapon used, among others.

    As per the official, these questions were intended to check for discrepancies in his statement. He further added that the results will be handed over to the investigators within two-three days.

    Aaftab had allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and cut her body into 35 pieces, before dumping them across the national capital and surrounding areas. Reportedly, he kept it in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping those over several days past midnight.

    The cops are yet to find the victim’s skull and remaining body parts as well as the weapon used to dismember the body.

    (With inputs from agency)

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  • Shraddha Walkar murder case: Lawyers at Delhi court shout slogans, demand Aftab Poonawala be hanged

    Shraddha Walkar murder case: Lawyers at Delhi court shout slogans, demand Aftab Poonawala be hanged

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    A large group of lawyers were seen shouting slogans outside the courtroom in the national capital New Delhi. They were demanding the death penalty for Aftab Poonawala, the accused in the macabre killing of his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar.

    Poonawala was produced before a local court via video conference at around 4 pm today for a custody hearing. According to news reports, Police feared he would be attacked, which is why the court had permitted using a video link from the jail.

    The large group of lawyers, who were expecting Poonawala would be brought in, began shouting slogans like “hang him, hang him.” The lawyers’ made this protest after the case reignited debates on “love jihad”, which accuses Muslim men of luring Hindu women to convert them to Islam.

    Reportedly, cops had asked the court for seven more days of Poonawala’s custody. They have been interrogating him for five days so far and wanted to extend Poonawala’s custody to gather more material evidence.

    Police have recovered 13 body parts, believed to be of the woman, from different areas which will be sent for DNA analysis. The investigating team is also likely to approach the dating app Bumble through which the duo met.

    28-year-old Poonawala had allegedly strangled Walkar in May and chopped her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight.

    The crime was uncovered after Vikas Walkar, Shraddha’s father, who had not been in touch with her for over a year, went to the cops around a month ago. Vikas was allegedly opposing the inter-faith relationship between Shraddha and Aftab.

    According to the police, his confession led them to the details, and evidence to corroborate the criminal trial is being collected. However, legal experts point out that a confession in police custody isn’t valid evidence unless made in front of a judicial officer.

    Moreover, cops have also sought permission for a lie-detector test on Aftab, who after being asked by the judge whether he is aware of the consequences of Narco, said yes and gave consent.

    Meanwhile, the Mira-Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police are clueless about the current location of the family members of Poonawala who had vacated their flat in a housing society in Vasai a fortnight ago and are believed to have shifted to the Mira Road area.

    (With input from agencies)

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  • Shraddha murder case: How Rs 54,000 bank transaction led to Aaftab Poonawalla’s arrest

    Shraddha murder case: How Rs 54,000 bank transaction led to Aaftab Poonawalla’s arrest

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    The Delhi Police have found substantial evidence– physical and digital– in the horrid Shraddha Walkar case so far. The accused in the case, Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, tried to put the murder of Shraddha under wraps by removing physical evidence. However, he left digital evidence which led the police to trace this case. 

    The biggest clincher in the case so far is the bank statement of the couple’s account which indicated a transaction worth Rs 54,000 from Shraddha’s net banking app to Aaftab’s account dated May 26. The location where the transaction took place was incidentally the Mehrauli police station area. 

    This busted Aaftab’s claim that Shraddha was not contactable after May 22 and that he had no contact with her. The police further found a chat from Shraddha’s Instagram account dated May 31, which also traced back to the Mehrauli police station area. 

    He told the Delhi Police that he kept posting on Walkar’s Instagram profile after the murder took place to avert any suspicion or questions about her whereabouts. Going by Aaftab’s confession, he murdered Shraddha on May 18, allegedly impersonated her on Instagram, and was active on her account till June 9. Apart from this, Poonawalla also searched Google to find ways to dispose of the dead body in a non-suspicious manner and the exact type of chopper he would have to use to dismember the body. 

    The police have written to the online dating app Bumble and sought details of his profile and the women who visited his place after the murder. Officials suspect that Poonawalla’s match from the dating app could be his motivation behind Walkar’s murder. Bumble has said that it will cooperate with the authorities in the case. 

    Bumble said, “We will continue to follow closely and remain available to law enforcement should they request our support. The safety and wellbeing of our members is our top priority and we have a dedicated global team serving their needs.” 

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    Delhi live-in partner murder case: Physical evidence so far 

    Apart from this, the statements of the late Shraddha Walkar’s father Vikas Walkar, Aaftab and Shraddha’s neighbours, and Shraddha’s friends also have been recorded. Her father has accused Aaftab of beating Shraddha regularly when she was with him in one of his statements to police. 

    Walkar demanded the death penalty for the accused and did not rule out the much-talked-about ‘love jihad’ angle in the case. He told the news agency ANI, “I suspect love jihad. We demand that Aaftab be sentenced to death. I have faith in the Delhi Police as the investigation is moving in the right direction. Shraddha was close to her uncle and didn’t talk to me much. I was never in touch with Aaftab. I lodged the first complaint in the case at Vasai (Mumbai).”

    He added that he did not know that his daughter shifted to Delhi and that her friend told him about the same. Walkar also mentioned that he thought she was in Bengaluru and Aaftab had ample time on his hands to remove the evidence. 

    Besides this, the police also recorded the statement of Dr. Anil Singh who treated Aaftab after he got injured while chopping Shraddha’s body into pieces.  He said that he was restless and aggressive while talking and left when questioned about how he got injured. 

    The investigating team has found the bill of the fridge allegedly used by Aaftab Poonawalla to store his girlfriend’s dismembered body, the bill of a small saw used to chop her body into 35 pieces, and statements of the retailer, who successfully identified Poonawalla. 

    They have found around 13 bones from the Mehrauli forest area, all of which have been sent for forensic testing to ascertain whether they belong to Shraddha. Recovering the bones is extremely crucial as it can tell the time and cause of the death. 

    Delhi murder case: The Road to Justice

    While the police have made substantial headway in the case, the road to justice is still far as there is much more evidence to be unearthed to make this a watertight case. This includes a murder weapon, Shraddha’s clothes at the time of the murder, the victim’s mobile phone, scientific evidence to indicate body parts were stored in the fridge, missing body parts, evidence to back the time of the incident, and the lack of witnesses when it comes to the fight between Shraddha and Aaftab.

    (With agency inputs)

    Also read: Delhi murder case: Aaftab Poonawala allegedly tried killing Shraddha 10 days before, but changed plans

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  • Aftab was restless and aggressive, says surgeon who treated him

    Aftab was restless and aggressive, says surgeon who treated him

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    Aftab Amin Poonawalla, who allegedly murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, was restless and aggressive while talking, a surgeon who treated him in May revealed on Tuesday. Aftab had allegedly strangulated Walker and chopped her into 35 pieces on May 18, but kept it a secret till early November.

    Dr Anil Singh said that Aftab visited him in May when needed stitches on his right forearm. “He was restless, and aggressive while talking. When asked he told he sustained an injury while cutting fruits, and left after taking a prescription,” Singh said while speaking to the news agency ANI.

    Shraddha, a resident of Mumbai’s Vasai, was in a relationship with Aftab. However, her family did not approve of the relationship so she left her home to live with Poonawala. In May, they shifted to Delhi.

    Reports say that Aftab had assaulted Shraddha many times. Shraddha’s friends claim that she had almost decided to quit the relationship but somehow could not.       

    The gruesome murder came to light earlier this week when the Delhi Police arrested Poonawala based on a case filed by Shraddha’s father Vikas Walker in Mumbai. According to the police, Poonawala allegedly strangulated Shraddha after a fight. He then moved her body from the bathroom to the kitchen and then chopped her into 35 pieces. 

    The police said that he bought a 300-liter fridge to store the parts. For the next 16 days, he went out around 2 am and disposed of the parts one by one at different spots near Mehrauli jungle. 

    News agency ANI citing police sources said only one weapon was used to chop Shraddha’s body parts. Aftab had used a mini saw to chop off the body parts, the report said. The sources said that the mini saw was yet to be recovered. Aftab broke down after the police grilled him when he gave confusing timelines of when Shraddha left him. 

    The Delhi Police sources also told the news agency that one common friend of Aftab and Shraddha has been called for questioning. This is the friend who had intimated Shraddha’s father about her going incommunicado. 
     

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  • Delhi murder: How accused Aaftab Poonawala kept Shraddha Walker’s murder a secret for months

    Delhi murder: How accused Aaftab Poonawala kept Shraddha Walker’s murder a secret for months

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    Delhi murder: The Delhi Police, which is probing the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walker allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala, has said Aaftab has confessed to killing her.  

    He also told police he didn’t speak Hindi and spoke only English. The police said Aaftab was a food blogger and also used to work at a call centre. The couple had frequent fights. 

    According to the police, Aaftab allegedly strangled his partner, Shraddha, on May 18 after a fight. He then moved her body to the bathroom to kitchen and then chopped her into 35 pieces. Later, he bought a 300-litre fridge to store the parts. For next 16 days, he went out around 2 am and disposed of the parts one by one, at different spots. He googled ways to remove blood stains and how to get rid of the stench.

    Also read: Shraddha Walker wanted to become a journalist, was in a theatre group in college: Friend   

    On Tuesday, Aaftab, who is in a prison in Mehrauli, told the police where he had allegedly dumped pieces of Shraddha’s body. The police said Aaftab cleverly chalked out the plan to first dismember Shraddha’s body, and then step by step decided how to get rid of her mortal remains in a manner that they were unretrievable by the authorities. 

    “The two met on a dating app in Mumbai. They were in a live-in relationship for three years and had shifted to Delhi. Soon after, Shraddha started pressurising Aftab to marry her,” Ankit Chauhan, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South Delhi told news agency ANI. 

    Also read: Delhi murder case: Shraddha Walker’s father says he wants accused Aaftab hanged to death

    “The two quarreled frequently and it used to get out of control. In this particular instance that occurred on May 18, the man lost his temper and strangled her,” Chauhan added. 

    The police added that Aftab used to sleep in the same room where he had chopped Shraddha’s body, and used to see her face after keeping it in the fridge. 

    Police said Aaftab and Shraddha move into the house in Mehrauli on May 15. Their house was at Gully Number 1 in Chhatarpur Pahadi area.On May 18, they had a massive fight, following which Aaftab tried to shut her mouth with his hand. He later allegedly strangulated her, the police said. 

    Also read: Delhi murder: Aaftab used dating app, brought another woman in house after killing Shraddha

    Police said Aaftab also confessed he used incense sticks and burnt them to keep the foul smell of Shraddha’s body pieces at bay. 

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  • Delhi murder: Aaftab used to hit Shraddha, claims friend

    Delhi murder: Aaftab used to hit Shraddha, claims friend

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    Shraddha Walker’s close friend Rajat Shukla has said that Shraddha had told her friends and parents that Aaftab often used to hit her when they discussed marriage.  

    Shukla, who studied with Shraddha in Vasai-based college, said that she was a bright girl and wanted to be a journalist and was a theatre enthusiast. “Shraddha and I met in college. We both wanted to be journalists so we often studied together. We were theatre enthusiasts. We acted together in several theatre productions,” says Shukla. 

    Also read: Shraddha murder case: Aaftab researched ways to clean blood, impersonated her; what we know so far

    He added that after meeting Aaftab, she changed. “She became very dull. She told me about her relationship, and I even met him. He appeared normal to me. They said they were planning on moving in together,” he added.  

    Shukla said Shraddha told her friends that she was moving to Delhi with Aftab. “She said they had decided to move to Delhi for work. We lost contact with her after she moved.” 

    He added that Shraddha had mentioned that Aaftab got abusive and frequently beat her when the two fought over marriage. 

    Also read: Delhi murder case: Shraddha Walker’s father says he wants accused Aaftab hanged to death

    “We tried to bring her back home safely. Unfortunately, all we got back was the news of her brutal murder,” Shukla said. 

    The heinous murder of Shraddha came to light on Monday. Shraddha, who was from Palghar near Mumbai, was killed and her body chopped into 35 pieces allegedly by Poonawala in Delhi, the police said. Both met through a dating app following which they started working at a call centre in Mumbai. 
    Coming to Delhi earlier this year, they used to travel to various places together and went to hill stations in March-April, the police said. In May, they travelled to Himachal Pradesh where they met a man who lived in Delhi’s Chhatarpur. After shifting to Delhi, they had initially stayed at the man’s flat, reports said.

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