Police find body parts in woods near Surajkund
AAFTAB-WALKAR CASE
Karn Pratap Singh, Megha Sood and Leena Dhankhar
DELHI/MUMBAI/GURUGRAM: Police on Thursday found decomposed bones stuffed inside a suitcase from a forest near Faridabad’s Surajkund, officers aware of the matter said, indicating that the recovery could be linked to the grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar allegedly by her boyfriend Aaftab Poonawala, who is also accused of hacking her body into at least 35 pieces and dumping them in multiple locations.
A senior police officer aware of developments also said that the probe team recovered CCTV footage from six months ago that showed Poonawala walking with a backpack in the south Delhi neighbourhood of Chhattarpur, where he shared a flat with Walkar for three days before allegedly killing her on May 18. This is the second such clip of Poonawala that has emerged since the probe began.
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Police team collected Walkar’s dental records — the treatment, her case history and X-rays of her teeth — from a local dentist who treated her several times. Walkar’s dental records are crucial for investigators because though it doesn’t have any DNA signatures, it could provide key clues for officers who recovered portion of a lower jaw from Gurugram six days ago. Police told a local court on Tuesday that they recovered a jaw and are running forensic tests to check if it belonged to Walkar. DCP Narender Kadiyan said a person saw a suitcase lying unattended in the Aravalli forest area in Surajkund around 2pm and called cops.