Shraddha Walkar murder case: Aaftab Poonawala to undergo narco test, custody extended to find out 'Himachal connection'

A Delhi court on Thursday gave permission to the police to conduct narco analysis test on Aaftab Poonawala, who is accused of murdering his live-in partner and chopping her body into 35 parts. The court also extended the 28-year-old accused’s custody for five more days. 

Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla passed the order while allowing police plea, which submitted that the accused is to be taken to Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for investigation. 

Just days before the brutal murder of Shraddha, the live-in couple went to Himachal Pradesh for a trip, thinking that spending some time together will mend the differences between the two, according to Shraddha’s friends. 

However, even during the trip, they kept fighting and Shraddha told one of her friends that she wanted to leave Aaftab as he had made her “life a hell”.   

In Himachal Pradesh, the pair met a man named Badri. They had spent many days at Badri's property before moving into their new home. The guy is being sought by the police.

Days before she was murdered in May this year, Shraddha told a close friend over the phone that they have “almost broken up” and she is finding a new place for herself in Delhi, according to the report. 

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“They were in a live-in relationship since 2019 but it was a very turbulent one, and he assaulted her many times. Their natures were completely different; it was a case of opposites attract. Finally they decided to give it a last shot and went to Himachal Pradesh this year for a trip. Even there, they were having fights and Shraddha had told us she had decided to break up and their relationship was nearing an end. After the Himachal Pradesh trip, they decided to spend some time in Delhi and I think she was waiting for May 16, which was their anniversary,” The Indian Express quoted the friend as saying. 

Poonawala and Walkar had met each other through an online dating application. Later, they started working for the same call centre in Mumbai and fell in love. But their families objected to the relationship as they belong to different faiths, prompting the couple to move to Mehrauli earlier this year, the officials said.

According to the police, they mostly fought over expenses and suuspicion of cheating. On May 18, they had an argument over who will go to Mumbai to bring the stuff remaining there. Neither of them were ready since both we broke, according to the police. The argument aggravated into a fight, and between 8 and 10 pm, Aaftab strangled Shraddha to death.