Shraddha Walkar murder case: Police sources claim Aaftab made up his mind to kill Shraddha more than a week before

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• 15 Nov 2022, 08:06 PM

  Delhi Police sources claimed that trained chef who was accused in the killing of live-in partner and then chopping her body into pieces, knew how to use the knife on her flesh. The liver and intestines of the victim were buried in the nearby forest area of Chattarpur and Mehrauli, sources said.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 08:04 PM

  As per Delhi Police sources, accused Aaftab alleged that "Even on that day, Shraddha and I had a fight. I was determined to kill her when she suddenly became emotional and started crying."

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 07:15 PM

  According to Delhi Police sources, the suspect in the horrifying murder of Shraddha Walker, Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, who killed his live-in partner and dismembered her body into 35 pieces before dumping them in the Chhatarpur forests in south Delhi, claimed he had already decided to kill his girlfriend more than a week before the murder, ANI reported.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 06:47 PM

  Twelve years before Shraddha Walkar's murder shook the country, Dehradun lived its own nightmare with the Anupama Gulati killing, in which her husband sawed her body into 72 pieces and froze them, before dumping them over several days. The two horrific murders have several aspects in common. Experts here said they not only reveal the brutality of the killers but also the fact that the murders were premeditated, and not committed in a fit of rage. (PTI)

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 06:26 PM

  Experts attribute it to poor communication, a low threshold for anger, and the normalisation of violence in media like television and film. According to forensic psychologist Deepti Puranik, we cannot directly attribute such behaviour to a single cause.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 06:01 PM

  Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women, Swati Maliwal has also reacted to the gruesome murder that took place in Delhi. 

   

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  — Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) November 15, 2022

   

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 05:46 PM

  Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, who is accused of killing his live-in partner and dismembering her body before burying it in a jungle, had gone to the doctor for treatment of his hand injury in May, the same month the woman was murdered. When Poonawalla first visited Dr. Anil Kumar for care, he was aggressive and restless, and when he was questioned about his injury, he said it occurred while he was chopping fruit.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 05:11 PM

  Victim's friend alleged that Shraddha wanted to end the relationship with Aaftab as her life had "become like hell". Speaking to ANI on Monday, Rajat Shukla, her friend, said, "Today suddenly the news flashed on the mobile of her murder. I was shaken to the core of my soul that my friend has been murdered. She told us in 2019 that she was in a relationship since 2018. They lived together. Initially, they lived happily, but then Sharddha started saying that Aaftab beats her. She wanted to leave him but couldn't do so."

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 04:54 PM

  Police officials have found 13 body parts, disposed off by Aaftab who was taken to the forest area of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur by the Police officials. Forensic results are yet to confirm whether the parts belong to the same victim, PTI reported.

   

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 04:42 PM

  The accused Aaftab Poonawala, on Tuesday, was taken to the forest area of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur where he had buried the body parts of his live-in partner. As per media reports, it took around three hours to locate specific places where he had allegedly disposed off her body parts. 

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 04:40 PM

  As per the Delhi Police sources, Aaftab used to sleep every day in the same room where he had chopped the body after killing Shraddha. He used to see the face after keeping it in the fridge. Aaftab had cleaned the fridge after disposing the body parts.Sources further said Aaftab had relations with many girls even before Shraddha. Before committing the crime, he also watched many crime movies and web series, including the American crime drama series Dexter, ANI reported.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 03:59 PM

  Delhi Police sources alleged said that the accused in the gruesome Delhi's murder, Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, had watched several crime movies and web series including ‘Dexter’ prior to committing the crime.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 03:24 PM

  According to the Police, Aftab who is accused for kiling Shraddha Walkar, had brought another woman to the apartment where the chopped part of Walkar's body were still in the refrigator. Police investigation is underway. 

  Police said Poonawala brought another woman to his apartment days after the murder, with the body parts of Shraddha still in a fridge.The authorities are looking into whether he had Shraddha's body parts in the apartment when he brought other women and if any of them served as a trigger for the crime.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 03:04 PM

  A friend of Maharashtra-based Shraddha Walker, has alleged that there could be a 'big conspiracy' behind the murder while another friend alleged that she had heard Aftab saying that he would kill her. 

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 02:58 PM

  The neighbours have alleged that they were clueless about the henious crime that took place in Delhi's Mehrauli.The man is accused of chopping up the body of his live-in partner and keeping the pieces in a refrigerator at his Mehrauli home for almost three weeks. However, they claimed that the couple's home had very little furniture and that the new 300-liter refrigerator the accused bought to conceal the body was kept in the living room.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 01:42 PM

  Aaftab and Shraddha met via the dating app "Bumble," according to Delhi police. Within 15–20 days of her murder, Aaftab found another lover through "Bumble," with whom he would visit the apartment. 

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 01:28 PM

  Aaftab threw Shraddha's mobile someplace in Maharashtra, and according to a police officer, they are trying to locate it so they may retrieve it.

   

  He further said that the Delhi Police is seeking the tool used to sever Shraddha's body. He claimed that Aaftab had disposed of it in Delhi. 

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 01:28 PM

  Shraddha Walkar, a victim of a murder in Delhi, has requested the death penalty for the accused Aftab Poonawala, according to her father, who spoke to the news agency ANI. “I trust Delhi Police & probe moving in right direction. Shraddha was close to her uncle, and didn't talk to me much. I was never in touch with Aftab. I lodged the 1st complaint in Vasai,” he was quoted as saying.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 01:06 PM

   

  Shraddha Murder case|Delhi Police may write to Bumble to get details of Aftab's profile to find details of women who visited him in his house when body was still in refrigerator. Police looking at possibility if any of these women could be a reason behind this killing: DP Sources

  — ANI (@ANI) November 15, 2022

   

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 01:06 PM

  Aftab's profile information on Bumble may be requested by Delhi Police in order to learn more about the women who visited him at home while the body was still in the refrigerator. Police are investigating whether one of these women was responsible for the killing.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 12:57 PM

  “The whole country is standing with the family of shraddha. We cannot see this as a mere murder case only. The love jihad angle should also be investigated by the Delhi police. We demand Delhi police investigate this….one person cannot be behind this there is a gang involved in it,” Ram Kadam said.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 12:37 PM

  Shraddha's phone, whose last known location was tracked, was dropped by Aftab. Police are looking for the tool that was used to dismember her body. Up until June, he created the appearance that she was still alive using her Instagram account.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 12:23 PM

  About ten samples of skeletal remains that were thought to be human were found, collected by forensic specialists, and are now being forwarded for confirmation that they are all human remains. They'll be delivered to match her father's DNA samples.

  
• 15 Nov 2022, 12:22 PM

  Aftab Amin Poonawalla was inspired by the American crime show ‘Dexter’ to commit Shraddha Walker’s murder. 

   

  The woman from Vasai in Maharashtra’s Palghar district was killed by a 28-year-old man in Delhi who had met at a call centre in Mumbai, police said on Monday. The accused allegedly strangled his live-in partner 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, according to Delhi Police.