Aaftab points to pond for body parts of Walkar, police search it

NEW DELHI: Aaftab Amin Poonawala — who is alleged to have murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar this May and dismembered her remains and scattered them across Mehrauli, Chhattarpur and Gurugram — has told the police that he disposed of some of her body parts in a pond in Maidan Garhi, said officers aware of the matter, prompting investigators on Sunday to begin draining the south Delhi water body, even as the police said they recovered what appeared to be pieces of a skull from a forest in Chhattarpur.

The bones will be sent for forensic tests to ascertain if they are of human origin and belong to Walkar, said officers.

On Sunday, Delhi Police teams and officers from the city’s municipal corporation and water utility made their way to the Mahadhudi pond in Maidan Garhi village, barely 500 metres from the rented Chhattarpur Pahadi flat where Walkar was allegedly killed.