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 court in New Delhi on January 10 extended for 14 days the judicial custody of Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner and dismembering her body.
Poonawala was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla in the court lock up.
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The court extended his judicial custody for 14 days and directed the prison authorities to provide him with warm clothes.
Earlier on December 6, the court had extended Poonawala’s judicial custody by four days.
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Aftab Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, 27, and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his Mehrauli residence, before dumping them across the city over several days.
He was arrested on November 12.