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Shraddha Murder Case: BSF Deployed Outside Forensic Lab After Attack On Police Van Carrying Aftab

On Monday night, a group of people carrying swords attacked the police van carrying Aftab when he was being taken to Tihar Jail from FSL after his polygraph test.

New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) has been deployed outside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini after the police van carrying Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused in Shraddha Walkar's murder, was attacked by some men weilding swords, reported news agency ANI. The accused who attacked the police van were produced in a court and have been sent to judicial custody, said the Delhi Police adding that the remaining accused will be identified and arrested. 

On Monday night, a group of people carrying swords attacked the police van carrying Aftab when he was being taken to Tihar Jail from FSL after his polygraph test. The group of people also pelted stones at the police van. Two persons, who claimed to be from an outfit called Hindu Sena, were detained for attacking the vehicle.

Five policemen were present in the police van with Aftab, including a sub-inspector, when the attack took place. After the attack, a police officer came out of the vehicle and brandished his gun to bring the situation under control.

One of the persons who attacked the van said, "He (Aftab) killed our sister and chopped her into 35 pieces. Take him (Aftab) out for two minutes, I will kill him."

However, Hindu Sena national president Vishnu Sharma distanced the outfit from the attack. "The murder of Shraddha has enraged every citizen. We have nothing to do with the attackers," Vishnu Sharma told ABP Live.

A case was registered at the Prashant Vihar Police Station in connection with the incident.

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Aftab allegedly strangled and killed his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, a call centre employee, in his Chhatarpur flat in Mehrauli. He then dismembered her corpse into 35 pieces and stacked them in a refrigerator and would later dump them at midnight at various places in the city. 

Aftab was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, which was extended by five days more days on November 17. On November 22, he was sent to police custody for four days. On November 26, the court sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.

He has undergone four sessions of the polygraph test, also known as the lie-detector test, so far and is likely to face narco analysis on December 5. 

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