Aftab Poonawala sent to 13-day judicial custody, says Delhi Police

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sent Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner and chopping her body into 35 pieces in south Delhi’s Mehrauli, to judicial custody for 13 days, police said.

Police have initiated the legal process for the production of the accused for further proceedings in the polygraph test, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order, Zone II) Sagar Preet Hooda said.

Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, 27, and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his Mehrauli residence, before dumping those across the city over several days.

The polygraph test on Poonawala went on for nearly three hours on Friday at the Forensic Science Laboratory here. Poonawala reached the FSL at Rohini for his third session of the polygraph test at 4 pm and left after 6:30 pm, police said.

A senior FSL official said all sessions related to the test have been completed, including the pre, main, and post-stages of the procedure.

Aftab Poonawala will later also take a narco-analysis test. Poonawala’s four-day police remand expired on Saturday.

“Our forensic experts will analyse the recordings and make a report accordingly. He (Poonawala) can be called again if the experts are not satisfied with the report. Based on the outcome of the report, a decision will be taken on conducting narco analysis which can be carried out even if he is sent to judicial custody,” he said.

A series of questions related to the case such as the sequences of events that led to the murder, the accused’s relationship with Walkar, the reason for their strained relationship, the place where he dumped the body parts, the type of weapon used, were among some of the questions asked in the test.

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