New Delhi: The Delhi Police has prepared a 3,000-page draft chargesheet against Aaftab Poonawala who allegedly murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and chopped up her body into 35 pieces before dumping them across the city, according to a source.
The draft document is based on crucial electronic and forensic evidence supported by more than 100 witnesses’ testimonials.
Police have also registered Aaftab’s confessions, his narco test result, and forensic test reports in the draft chargesheet. Legal experts are working on the drafted chargesheet for review.
Aaftab Poonawala is alleged to have killed his live-in-partner, Shraddha Walkar 18 May 2022 at their rented flat in Delhi’s Mehrauli after an argument. He had cut her body into 35 pieces which he then stored in a 300-liter fridge. He later dumped the body parts in the Mehrauli forest area over several days.
The saw and blade allegedly used to chop up the body were allegedly thrown in the bushes near Gurugram, while the meat cleaver was dumped in a dustbin in south Delhi, a source said.
In December 2022, a DNA test confirmed that the bones dumped by Aftab belonged to Shraddha Walkar.
The incident came to light gradually after Shraddha’s father went to the police in their hometown in Maharashtra in October 2022.
Vikas Walkar was not in touch with his daughter Shraddha as he was not in favour of her inter-faith relationship with Aaftab Poonawala. Having met over a dating app, Shraddha and Aaftab lived together for some months in their hometown Vasai near Mumbai before shifting to Delhi in May 2022.
The 28-year-old, Aftab has been in judicial custody since November last year. Aaftab had earlier told a Delhi court that he killed his partner Shraddha Walkar “in the heat of the moment”.
PNN/ Agencies