Aaftab Poonawala to be Taken to Various South Delhi Areas to Locate Victim’s Body Parts

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 19th Nov. Aaftab Amin Poonawala will be taken to various locations in south Delhi on Saturday as the Delhi Police search for more body parts that he allegedly disposed of after killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar.

According to the police, Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar (27) on May 18 and sawed 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 saw was allegedly bought from a shop on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, police sources said.

So far, the police have recovered 13 body parts, the majority of which are bones.

According to a source, the police recovered some body parts from Gurugram on Friday, which will be sent for forensic examination. The victim’s head is still missing.

Police have also stated that they recovered a sharp object from Poonawala’s residence. It will be examined to see if it was used to sever Walkar’s body.

According to police, blood samples from the victim’s father and brother have been collected in order to match their DNA with the skeletal remains recovered so far.

In a statement, police also stated that due to the “deceptive nature” of the accused’s responses, an application for conducting his narco-analysis test was made and approved by the court.

A Delhi court has ordered police to complete Aaftab Amin Poonawala’s narco analysis test within five days.

“To ascertain that the bones belong to the victim, the blood samples of the father and brother of ‘A’ (Walkar) have been collected for DNA analysis. To find out if any incriminating evidence resides in digital devices seized from the place of the offence, the same has also been sent for forensic retrieval of data,” the statement said.