The DNA analysis of the bones found in the Mehrauli jungle belonged to Shraddha Walkar, Aaftab Poonawala's live-in partner. The Delhi Police had taken the DNA sampled of Walkar's brother and father days after the murder came to light.
Zee Group reported on November 26 that DNA from the bones matched with that of Walkar's father.
Walkar was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Poonawala on May 18, in a rented flat in Delhi's Mehrauli. He later chopped the body into 35 pieces and stored them in a refrigerator. He disposed of the body one piece at a time all across Delhi and adjoining cities.
The police have been having a difficult time locating the pieces of the body. After several days of interrogation, they had recovered only 13 pieces, including parts of her jaw. They believed Poonwala had been misleading them.
Poonawala told the police that he had had an altercation with the woman weeks after they broke up. He was upset with the prospects of the woman entering a relationship with another man.
On the day of the murder, Walkar had pinged a friend on Instagram that she had news. The man responded to the Instagram message two hours later but never received the reply.
Poonawala, to conceal his crime, spoke to her friends on social media using her accounts. To throw her friends off her trail, he called a friend and asked him to speak to Walkar and convince her to talk with him. This was weeks after he strangled her to death.
Meanwhile, Zomato, in a report to the Delhi Police, said Poonwala used to order meals enough for two people but after May 18, he would order food for a single person.
Poonawala was inspired by Dexter, a US television serial based on a fictional character of a serial killer.
After the murder, the man went into a relationship with a doctor who came to the house when the body was in the refrigerator. She later told the police that she found nothing amiss and Poonawala's behaviour with her was normal.
Poonawala used room freshner extensively to mask the smell emanating from the putrefying body.
