Delhi police team reaches Mumbai for investigation
MUMBAI: A team of Delhi Police team has reached Vasai, Palghar area of Maharashtra to investigate the sensational Shraddha Walker murder case.
The three-member team of Delhi police met officials of Manikpur police of Maharashtra and sought their assistance in the investigation of the case. The police team is likely to record statements of friends of Aftab and Shraddha, and also their mutual friends.
“We are making a list of people including relatives, and friends and mutual friends with the help of Manikpur police to record their statements in connection to the case,” said a Delhi police officer.
The statement of their family members are also likely to be recorded, said, officials.
A team of senior officials of Delhi police is carrying out an investigation on various clues and angles to solve the Shraddha murder case allegedly perpetrated by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla.
The team is also conducting searches at Chhatarpur and nearby areas of Delhi for missing pieces of the victim’s body including the skull.
The police, after arresting the accused, on Friday claimed that the accused was high on marijuana on the night of the incident and an argument between him and the victim, Shraddha Walker, led to the latter’s killing.
The accused allegedly lingered beside her body all night, and smoked marijuana, official sources with Delhi police said.
Official sources associated with the technical investigation cell of the Delhi police claimed that the police are trying to retrieve chats of Aftab with Shraddha and others during the period of crime.
The police may also request social networking and messaging application platforms used by the accused, to share chat details, sources said.
Aftab is accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walker to death and chopping her body into 35 pieces.
Delhi police officials are also making efforts to retrieve chats of Aftab with Shraddha, and others during the period of the crime.