New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday will pronounce its order on framing charges against Aaftab Amin Poonawala. He has been accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar to death and chopping her body into several pieces.
Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar on April 29 adjourned the hearing while noting that the concerned judge was on leave, reported news agency PTI.
The hearing on an application by Walkar's father regarding the remains of the woman being handed over to the family for last rites has also been adjourned for May 9.
Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar had on April 15 reserved the order for April 29 after hearing arguments of prosecution lawyers as well as the accused on framing of charges.
On April 15, the probe agency had sought time in order to file its reply to the plea of Walkar's father.
Delhi Police has booked the accused under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and filed a 6,629-page charge sheet on January 24, reported PTI.
On May 18, 2022, Shraddha Walkar was allegedly strangled by Aftab Poonawala, following which the accused sawed her body into many pieces and kept them in a fridge for more than two weeks at his residence in Delhi's Mehrauli. In order to avoid the risk of being caught, Poonawala scattered the body parts of Walkar at different places in the national capital. People were shaken to their cores when the news surfaced about the gruesome murder.
New details of the case continued to emerge even weeks after the crime came to light. Earlier in March, the Delhi Police provided new information on the case during a hearing at Saket court. According to the police, the accused is a trained chef who knows how to preserve flesh. He received his training at the Taj Hotel.