New Delhi: The DNA of Shraddha Walker's bones matched with her father's blood sample, said sources at the forensic lab. The forensic investigation have confirmed the murder, they informed.
The forensic lab matched the blood clot and bones with the DNA sample of Shraddha's father Vikas Walkar, the sources said. According to them, some of the bone and blood samples recovered in the tiles of the flat shared by Shraddha and her live-in partner & accused Aaftab Poonawala were tested.
The forensic team is said to have given oral information to Delhi Police, it will take a few days to give the complete report, as per sources.
The DNA test report (of the victim's body parts) has not been received by the police, Sagar Preet Hooda, Special CP (Law & Order), Delhi Police said, as reported by news agency ANI.
Shraddha Walkar’s father Vikas on Saturday said that Aftab casually told him that he killed Shraddha, and it was exactly in the manner she had mentioned in her police complaint.
Talking exclusively to ABP News, Vikas Walkar said, “He told me very casually, in a normal manner that ‘she is no more’ and admitted that he killed her.”
Recently, a team of Delhi police, probing the Shraddha Walkar murder case, on Thursday conducted a search in Bhayander creek near Mumbai for a mobile phone.
The search was conducted with the help of personnel of the Mira-Bhayandar-Vasai-Virar Police, news agency PTI reported an official as saying.
The police team from the national capital camped in the Vasai area near Mumbai, from which Shraddha and her alleged murderer Aaftab Poonawala hailed, for a week.
The investigators also recorded statements of Shraddha and Poonawala's friends, relatives, and owners of the flats they had rented, among others.
Poonawala allegedly murdered Shraddha in Delhi in May this year.
He allegedly strangled Shraddha and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at their residence before dumping them across the national capital over several days past midnight.
(With Agency Inputs)