Man chops girlfriend into 35 pieces: Police
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man allegedly murdered his girlfriend six months ago, chopped her body into at least 35 pieces for over two days, stored them in a refrigerator for about three months, and dumped the body parts piece by piece in different parts of south Delhi, police said on Monday, claiming to have solved a murder and cover-up that could be among the most gruesome in the Capital’s case files.
Even as police said that Aaftab Amin Poonawala has confessed to the murder, investigators are yet to establish if 13 pieces of decomposed bones that they have recovered in their search operations actually belong to Shraddha Vikas Walkar, 27. In the absence of any conclusive evidence to corroborate Poonawala’s alleged confession, the recovered bones have been sent for DNA profiling. Police are also yet to recover the weapon — some officers said it was a hacksaw, others said it was a meat cleaver — he allegedly used to hack the body.
In a murder investigation, it is crucial to find the body and the weapon to prove the case in a court of law as Poonawala’s confession before the police is not admissible as evidence in court.
On Monday afternoon, police teams fanned across different parts of the city — particularly the forested areas of Mehrauli and Chhattarpur — searching for the missing body parts. They