Shraddha Walkar murder case: Bones found from Mehrauli, Gurugram match father's DNA

New Delhi: In a big development in Shraddha Walkar murder case, DNA extracted from bones collected by Delhi Police from the jungles of Mehrauli and Gurugram has matched with the samples of her father, according to sources.

Shraddha murder case | A few bone samples matched the DNA of Shraddha's father, clarifying that they belonged to Shraddha. They were collected by Delhi Police from the jungles of Mehrauli and Gurugram: Sources

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“The police have received the DNA report of the bones found. The DNA of the bones matches with the DNA samples of Walkar’s father,” a source said. The bone samples were sent for DNA analysis to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory. The report of Poonawala’s polygraph test was submitted to the police by the forensic sciences lab on Wednesday. The gory details about Walkar’s murder shook the entire nation last month after the Delhi Police arrested her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala on 12 November. During interrogation, Poonawala, 28, confessed to killing Walkar and chopping her body parts into 35 pieces and disposing them of in various parts of the national capital, police had said. Following his confession, police scanned through various forest areas and even a pond in Madangir was emptied to look for Walkar’s missing body parts. Police had recovered more than 13 body parts, suspected to be that of Walkar, from forest areas of Mehrauli and Gurugram and had sent them for forensic and DNA analysis. The case, which had the investigators on tenterhooks, also gave fodder to gossip mills that were churning out various salacious stories, with police denying them outrightly. There was an outrage over the case with the lawyers protesting against Poonawala following which he was produced in the court through video conference. Some fringe groups also tried to give it an angle of ‘Love Jihad’. While there were questions abound like ‘what triggered Walkar’s killing?’ and ‘why did not she speak about the abuse being inflicted on her by Poonawala?’, the answers were few. Walkar’s friends from Mumbai spoke about how she had been a victim of abuse ever since she started dating Poonawala in 2018. Despite taking the decision to leave him in the past, she forgave him whenever he apologised, her friends revealed to police. The couple had met on a dating app and police have learnt that even after killing her, Poonawala’s profile on the app was active and was still chatting with several women. The accused was also in relationship with a woman, who was also quizzed by police. Several sessions of polygraph test were conducted on Poonawala which was followed by the narco analysis test held at Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital by experts of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Rohini. According to investigating officers, the statements that Poonawala gave in his polygraph and narco analysis tests and during the police interrogation were the same. However, a senior FSL official said, “Final reports of both polygraph and narco analysis test are still awaited.” Besides, police are yet to recover Walkar’s mobile phone which the accused allegedly threw somewhere. Currently, Poonawala is lodged in Tihar Jail and has also been provided Paul Theroux’s railway odyssey ‘The Great Railway Bazaar’ following his request. The court on 26  November sent him to judicial custody for 13 days. On Friday, it extended by 14 days the judicial custody of Poonawala till 23 December. Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar on 18 May and sawed her body into 35 pieces and kept them 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. With inputs from agencies Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.