Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused to have murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, being brought to the Mehrauli forest area, in New Delhi. File
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A Delhi court on May 9 framed murder charges against Aftab Poonawala, accused of strangulating his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and chopping her body in 35 pieces.
Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar said prima facie a case for offences under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) was made out against the accused.
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Poonawala, however, denied the charges and demanded a trial. The matter has been posted for further proceedings on June 1.
The Delhi Police had filed a 6,629-page charge sheet in the case on January 24.
Walkar was allegedly strangled by Poonawala on May 18, 2022, following which he cut her body into pieces and kept them in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
He scattered the pieces at different places in the national capital to avoid getting caught.
(With PTI inputs)
