Diving deeper into the investigation in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Delhi Police on Wednesday reached accused Aaftab Ameen Poonawala’s flat in Delhi’s Chhatarpur, where they found blood stains in the kitchen and surgical gloves by the window.
The police also got approval to conduct a narco-analysis test on Aaftab from a Delhi court. The police claimed he was not cooperating during the investigation and made attempts to mislead the police.
Aaftab is accused of murdering his live-in partner in May, chopping her body into 35 pieces and stuffing them in a fridge. He then scattered the pieces one by one across Delhi’s Mehrauli forest over a period of 16 days.
3. A court in Delhi has given its approval to the police to conduct a narco-analysis test on Aaftab Ameen Poonawala in connection with the murder case. Since Aaftab was not cooperating during the investigation and made attempts to mislead the police, Delhi Police moved Saket court to seek approval for the test. Aaftab has not yet disclosed details of Shraddha’s mobile phone and the weapon that he allegedly used to chop his partner’s body into pieces.
4. The Delhi Police said that the bone fragments that were recovered on Tuesday belong to the lower part of the spinal cord. 10-12 pieces of dismembered bones were found by a forensic team on Tuesday.
5. During the interrogation, Aaftab Poonawala told the police that he had tried to kill Shraddha before but changed his mind after she became emotional and started crying. Sources told India Today that on that day too, Aaftab and Shraddha had an argument surrounding the topic of marriage.
6. Furnishing details about the banking transactions, Senior Police Inspector Sampatrao Patil, Manikpur police station, Vasai, Maharashtra, said, “Banking transactions were made by Aaftab from Shraddha’s accounts on three occasions. On May 18, he transferred Rs 50,000 to his account from her account, and again on two more occasions he transferred the amount from her account to his account.”
7. Aaftab and Shraddha Walkar met each other on an online dating app. Later, they started working for the same call centre in Mumbai and fell in love. But their families objected to the relationship as they belonged to different faiths, prompting the couple to move out of the financial capital.