Shraddha Murder Case: Men With Swords Attack Police Van Carrying Aftab Poonawala; Arrested

The police vehicle transporting Aftab Poonawala, suspected of murdering his live-in partner, was attacked by armed people on Monday, just outside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini, where he was scheduled to undergo a polygraph.

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Later in the evening, the police vehicle was stopped after being overtaken by a car. Some witnesses say that a small group of people got out of the car and started beating up the van that Poonawala was in.

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The vehicle was chased away as the two attackers were detained, the police said; the incident occurred at around 6:45 p.m. Videos of the alleged incident surfaced online, showing a police officer pulling his service pistol and dispersing the attackers, who were armed with swords.

One video shows the assailants saying they are from a right-wing organization and that they only attacked Poonawala to get revenge for Shraddha Walkar's brutal murder.

#WATCH | Police van carrying Shradhha murder accused Aftab Poonawalla attacked by at least 2 men carrying swords who claim to be from Hindu Sena, outside FSL office in Delhi pic.twitter.com/Bpx4WCvqXs

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) G S Sidhu said, "Two persons have been detained for questioning." According to the police, the two detained have been identified as Kuldeep and Nigam. Further legal action will be taken as per the law," they said.

Regarding the incident, Hindu Sena national president Vishnu Gupta said, "Whatever these activists have done is a reaction to their personal feelings. The whole country learned how Poonawala cut a Hindu girl into pieces."

"The organization does not support any such work against the Constitution of India. We believe in the law," he said.

Poonawala allegedly strangled Shraddha Walkar and cut her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-liter fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli in south Delhi before dumping them across the city over several days.

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He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, further extended by five days on November 17. On November 22, he was sent to police custody for four days. On November 26, the court was sent to judicial custody for 13 days.

(With PTI inputs)

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