Aftab Admits To Killing Shraddha In Polygraph Test: Will It Be Admissible In Court?

Aftab has made major confessions in his polygraph test. But the real question is whether the court will accept his confession as evidence.

Aftab admits to killing Shraddha in Polygraph test

Source : PTI

New Delhi: In a big breakthrough in the Shraddha Walkar case, accused Aftab has accepted that he killed Shraddha in the polygraph test on Wednesday. He also took a narco-analysis test at a Rohini hospital today as part of the ongoing investigation.

According to the sources, Aftab has also admitted to dumping the body parts of Sharddha in the jungle after the murder and that he had planned to kill her long back. 

But the real question is whether the court will accept his confession in the Polygraph test as evidence.

The news agency PTI reported that the statements made during this test are not admissible as primary evidence in the court, except under certain circumstances when the bench thinks that the facts and nature of the case permit it.

However, the Supreme Court in the ‘Selvi & Ors vs State of Karnataka & Anr’ (2010) said that any information or material subsequently discovered with the help of such a voluntarily-taken test can be admitted as evidence, Indian Express reported.

Hence, the statements made by Aftab can help the police find out evidence against him. 

For example, if an accused discloses the location of a murder weapon during the test and police subsequently discover the weapon there, the accused's statement won't be considered evidence, but the weapon will be.

Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawalla allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them over several days.

He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, which was further extended by five days on November 17. The court on November 26 sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.

(With inputs from PTI)