'Aftab Didn't Like That Shraddha Met A Friend': Police On Motive Of Mehrauli Murder Case
"The accused did not like the fact that she had gone to meet a friend. He became worried. He killed her that day," Joint Commissioner of Police Meenu Choudhary told reporters today.
Aftab Poonawala murdered his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar in anger after she went to meet a friend, the police said in the chargesheet into the Mehrauli murder case.
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6,629-page chargesheet filed
In the 6,629-page chargesheet, the Delhi Police said that Aftab got extremely violent after discovering that Shraddha went out to meet her friend. "The accused did not like the fact that she had gone to meet a friend. He became worried. He killed her that day," Joint Commissioner of Police Meenu Choudhary told reporters today.
Walkar, 27, was allegedly strangled, her body chopped into 35 pieces and disposed of in various parts of Delhi by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala. He discarded the body parts into a nearby forest and other places over nearly three weeks to hide evidence. Both had moved to Delhi from Mumbai in May and were live-in partners.
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Over 150 statements recorded
More than 150 statements were recorded in the Shraddha Walker murder case," Joint CP said. The police said they formed nine teams to crack the case and even sent some of them to Haryana, Himachal and Maharashtra to collect evidence and talk to people for a larger picture.
"We collected body parts for a long time. A lot of technology went into analysing the evidence. We got a DNA and other forensic tests done," Ms Choudhary said.
The investigating officer had said the statements that Poonawala gave during his polygraph and narco-analysis tests and the police interrogation were the same. The narco-analysis and polygraph test reports are not admissible as evidence in court.
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5 kinds of knives used to chop body
Aftab Poonawala used over five kinds of knives and other tools to chop up his girlfriend's body, the police said in the chargesheet. A saw and blade allegedly used to chop up the body were reportedly thrown into the bushes in Gurugram, and a meat cleaver was dumped in a dustbin in south Delhi.
The court has also extended the custody of Aftab Poonawala, presented through video conferencing, until February 7. The court has ordered the police to produce Aftab physically before the court on February 7.
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How was he caught
Aftab Poonawala was caught after Shraddha Walkar's father went to the police in their hometown in Maharashtra in October. The father, Vikas Walkar, had not been in touch with her as he was upset over her inter-faith relationship with Aftab Poonawala.
Having met over a dating app, the couple lived together for some months in their hometown Vasai near Mumbai before shifting to Delhi only in May last year.
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