New Delhi: Court extended the police custody of Delhi murder accused Aftab Poonawala by five days and gave permission to conduct Narco analysis test on the accused. The accused has also given his consent to the test.
Poonawala, who allegedly killed his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, was produced before a court through video-conferencing on Thursday.
According to Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla, Delhi police had submitted an application saying that the accused faced threat from miscreants and religious groups.
"I am aware of the sensitivity of the matter, media coverage...Public traction...," the judge had said while allowing the application.
Poonawala was produced before the court through video conferencing at 4 pm.
Notably, twenty-eight-year-old Aftab Poonawala allegedly strangled Shradha Walkar and chopped 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 across the city over several days past midnight.
Police said that the couple used to have frequent arguments over financial issues, and it is suspected that there was a fight between them that resulted in Poonawala killing Walkar on the evening of May 18.
Police have recovered 13 body parts, believed to be of the woman, from different areas and have been sent for DNA analysis.
Earlier, police got permission from a court to conduct Narco analysis test on Poonawala after they claimed that the accused has been giving incorrect information to them and trying to mislead the investigation.
With chilling details on the case coming to the fore, Shraddha’s father Vikas Walker, speaking to news agency ANI, said, "Aftab is clever and has erased the evidence in the last five to six months. So, Police will face a little difficulty in bringing out the truth. I won't rest until Aftab is given a death sentence."
"Delhi Police realised that Aftab sometimes lies and sometimes speaks the truth. So, they applied for a Narco test. I feel I am about to get justice. If he has done the crime, he should be hanged. I always felt he was lying, I had told Mumbai and Delhi Police," he added.