A Delhi courtroom on Tuesday framed homicide prices on Aftab Poonawala within the Shraddha Walkar killing case. He has additionally been charged for inflicting disappearance of proof.
Further Periods Decide Manisha Khurana Kakkar stated prima facie a case for offences beneath IPC sections 302 (homicide) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence) was made out in opposition to the accused. Aftab Poonawala has pleaded not responsible and claimed trial.
Poonwala allegedly strangulated his live-in associate Shraddha Walkar and sawed her physique into 35 items and saved them in a 300-litre fridge earlier than dumping them throughout varied areas within the metropolis over a number of days.
In January, the Delhi Police had filed a 6,629-page chargesheet within the case. The chargesheet was filed 75 days after the police had began investigations in November final yr.
Poonwala and Walkar, hailing from Mumbai, have been in a relationship and had moved to Delhi in Might 2022. The homicide got here to gentle when a pal knowledgeable Walkar’s father that he had not heard from her from almost two months. After being unable to contact his daughter, Walkar’s father knowledgeable Mumbai Police final October. The Mumbai police’s probe led police to the couple’s rented room in south Delhi Chhattarpur Pahadi.
The breakthrough got here when 13 decomposed physique components, largely items of bones, retrieved on Poonawala’s insistence led to a DNA match that confirmed Shraddha Walkar was murdered. Aftab Poonawala was arrested in November final yr and is at present lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
