DELHI MURDER: ACCUSED TAKEN TO SPOT WHERE BODY PARTS WERE DUMPED

NEW DELHI: Delhi police on Tuesday took Aaftab Amin Poonawala, the 28- year- old accused of killing his live-in partner, to the forest area of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur and spent nearly three hours to locate specific places where he had allegedly dumped her body parts.

Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in May and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept 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.

After the scene recreation exercise on Tuesday, the accused was brought back to the police station.

According to police officials, he will also be taken to some other places in the city besides the Chhatarpur jungle area as part of their probe into the murder.

“The crime scene was recreated to understand and ascertain the sequence of events that led to the heinous crime and how he managed to locate the spots where different pieces could be dumped without inviting public glare,” a senior police official said.

The police is also likely to approach authorities at online dating app Bumble through which both the accused and victim met.