Aaftab takes 2nd polygraph test in Shraddha Walkar killing
NEW DELHI: The second session of the polygraph test on Mehrauli murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala took place on Thursday at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini, officials said.
The test could not be conducted on Wednesday as the 28-year-old was down with a fever and cold, they said.
An official from FSL said, “He has been brought by the police here and the process of polygraph test has started.”
The delay in the completion of the test has also put off Aaftab’s narco test.
The polygraph test records physiological phenomena such as blood pressure, pulse rate and respiration, and the data is used to determine whether the person is speaking the truth.
The narco analysis, on the other hand, involves administering the individual medication which reduces their selfconsciousness and allows them to speak freely.
Aaftab was arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly killing Walkar in May this year and cutting her body into multiple pieces before disposing of them. Walkar, a resident of Mumbai’s Vasai, had in 2020 submitted a written complaint, which she later withdrew, to the police that Aaftab had tried to kill her and that he had threatened to cut her into pieces and throw her away, an official had said on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: The second session of the polygraph test on Mehrauli murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala took place on Thursday at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini, officials said.
The test could not be conducted on Wednesday as the 28-year-old was down with a fever and cold, they said.
An official from FSL said, “He has been brought by the police here and the process of polygraph test has started.”
The delay in the completion of the test has also put off Aaftab’s narco test.The polygraph test records physiological phenomena such as blood pressure, pulse rate and respiration, and the data is used to determine whether the person is speaking the truth.
The narco analysis, on the other hand, involves administering the individual medication which reduces their self-consciousness and allows them to speak freely.
Poonawalla is an accused in the macabre Shraddha Walkar murder case.
“Accused is behaving very normally and smoothly from the beginning, so it was very important to get his polygraph and narco done. This is a long process. Even after the remand is over narco test will be done in judicial custody too,” said Delhi Police sources.The accused is currently in police custody.
Delhi Court on Tuesday extended the police custody of Aaftab Poonawala to four more days. Aaftab is accused of strangling Shraddha, his live-in partner, to death and chopping her body into 35 pieces. He is also alleged to have preserved the chopped body parts in a refrigerator before dumping them in the forests of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur .Earlier on November 23, Aaftab went through court-sanctioned polygraph tests to take the probe forward.
“Pre-med sessions and scientific sessions for Aftab’s polygraph test leading up to the polygraph test are underway,” FSL officials had said on Tuesday.
Delhi Police claimed to solve the six-month-old murder case after arresting Aaftab on the basis of a complaint filed by Shraddha’s father. Aaftab and Shraddha met on a dating site and moved in together to a rented accommodation in Chhatarpur .On receipt of the complaint from Shraddha’s father, Delhi Police registered an FIR on November 10.
Subsequent interrogation of the accused revealed that Aaftab killed Shraddha on May 18 after which he started researching ways to dispose of the body. He also borrowed ideas on disposal from popular crime shows on his streaming devices, Delhi Police revealed.He also told police that he read up on human anatomy before chopping his girlfriend’s body. Police said after browsing on the internet for ways to remove all traces of his crime, Aaftab mopped blood stains from the floor of the couple’s Chhatarpur apartment with some chemicals and also disposed of all stained clothes.
He then shifted the body to the bathroom and bought a refrigerator where he hoarded the chopped body parts, police said. The Delhi Police on Wednesday had recorded the statements of the family of the accused. Meanwhile, a complaint filed by Shraddha in 2020 informing Maharashtra Police against Aaftab’s brutalities against her has surfaced.
In the letter to Tulini Police in Palghar, Shraddha alleged that she may be harmed if police did not take action.