Shraddha Murder Case: Delhi Court Orders Cross-Examination Of 3 Prosecution Witnesses On July 12

The court said that the cross-examination of three prosecution witnesses in the Shraddha Walker Murder case, including her brother Shreejay will be done on July 12.

A Delhi court on Thursday said that the cross-examination of three prosecution witnesses in the Shraddha Walker Murder case, including Sharddha's brother Shreejay will be done on July 12. Shreejay testified as a prosecution witness in the case. He apprised the court that she had informed him that Aftab used to indulge in verbal altercation with her and beat her up, as reported by the news agency ANI.

Earlier in January, during its investigation into the Shraddha Walkar murder case, the Delhi Police found that the trigger for Aftab Poonawala's violence could have been the fact that the victim had gone to meet a friend earlier on May 18, 2022.

Meenu Choudhary, Joint CP southern range, Delhi Police, said: "The day the incident occurred, the accused didn't like that she (Shraddha) had gone to meet a friend. On this ground, he became violent and the incident happened."

Delhi Police filed a 6,629-page charge sheet against Aaftab Amin Poonawala in the Shraddha Walkar murder case before Delhi's Saket court on Tuesday afternoon. The accused, Aftab Poonawala, was produced in the court through video conferencing.

The charge sheet, which runs over 6,500 pages, consisted of testimonies of 100 witnesses, as well as forensic and electronic evidence from the case which the police gathered after months of investigations and searches.

Aftab Poonawala had allegedly killed his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar on May 18, 2022, by strangling her. Aftab, 28, then sawed Walkar's body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi's Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days.

According to police sources, he confessed during interrogation that he had disposed off the saw and blade he used in chopping up the body near his office in the bushes of Gurugram's DLF Phase 3.

Every night he would allegedly go out with the pieces of Shraddha's body in his bag, to dispose them of. This carried on over several days. In the meantime, Aftab allegedly also saw other women, and brought them home, even when Shraddha's body parts lay in his fridge.