NEW DELHI: Police on Tuesday filed the cost sheet within the Shraddha Walkar homicide case, charging her live-in associate, Aaftab Poonawala, with homicide and destruction of proof.
Aaftab, who has not been charged with prison conspiracy, had killed Shraddha as a result of the eagerness between the 2 had diminished and Aaftab wished to be rid of her, Delhi Police sources say.
The 6,629-page preliminary chargesheet says that Aftab, 28, and Shraddha, 27, had a battle on their ‘anniversary’ (the day that they had first met) on Might 17, 2022, after which she stayed the evening in the home of a male good friend she had met on a relationship app. Aftab killed her the next day when she returned dwelling.
Police invoked Part 201 of the Indian Penal Code coping with destruction of proof to explain Aftab’s grotesque act of dismembering the physique of his associate into 18-24 items, storing them within the fridge for months and disposing of them at varied places.
Tuesday’s was the preliminary chargesheet. Filed two weeks earlier than the deadline, it meets the requirement for police to file costs inside three months of the arrest of an individual. A supplementary report will probably be filed by subsequent month.
Placing on file the restoration of 18 items of the sufferer’s physique, all confirmed by forensic and different superior exams to belong to Shraddha, police have backed their claims of homicide with circumstantial and technical proof. Whereas the DNA and mitochondrial exams confirmed the murdered lady to be the lacking Shraddha, there have been anomalies in communication patterns that indicated Aftab’s complicity, issues like change from the same old order of meals for 2 individuals to 1 on meals apps after Shraddha’s disappearance, Google places, CCTV footage, name places and different technical particulars.
Layered voice evaluation exams additionally confirmed Aaftab’s voice in some telephonic recordings of Shraddha. Her criticism to Mumbai Police about Aaftab’s risk that he would chop her physique into items has been duly recorded within the chargesheet.
A complete of 182 witnesses have been examined and their statements recorded, amongst them the male good friend who Shraddha went to satisfy, her relations, mates, her former work supervisor, the couple’s frequent good friend Badri, the {hardware} store proprietor who offered him the reducing implements, the digital store from the place Aaftab buy the fridge and the girl who met Aaftab at his residence after Shraddha’s homicide. Shraddha’s conversations along with her former work supervisor the place she speaks about Aaftab assaulting her was a part of the investigation and is talked about within the chargesheet.
As per the chargesheet, Aaftab used a number of implements to cut the physique, together with a knife, scissors and a noticed. Whereas police recovered a few of them, they discovered no hint of blood on them. Nonetheless, the narco evaluation and polygraph check reviews have been in keeping with the police investigation and there was sufficient circumstantial proof to determine that he had murdered his associate.
His GPS places confirmed him current on the place of homicide — his rented flat in Chhatarpur Pahadi. The cops recovered CCTV footage from Chhatarpur Pahadi and Gurgaon displaying the accused leaving his residence with a bag in early hours, allegedly to get rid of the sufferer’s physique items. DNA and mitochondrial DNA reviews confirmed that the bones recovered from the forested space in south Delhi have been a match with these of Shraddha’s father and brother.
The gory homicide got here to gentle on November 8, 2022, when the Manikpur police in Maharashtra revealed particulars of a lacking lady. On November 9, a report on a lacking lady was registered at Mehrauli police station in Delhi. A day later, an FIR was registered relating to the kidnapping of Shraddha, based mostly on the assertion made by her father on the Mehrauli police station. Performing rapidly, Delhi Police arrested Aaftab on November 11 final yr. To observe up the sensational homicide case, the cops fashioned a particular investigation workforce with 9 teams. They went to Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gurgaon, Haryana and Delhi in pursuit of clinching proof towards the accused.
Aaftab, who has not been charged with prison conspiracy, had killed Shraddha as a result of the eagerness between the 2 had diminished and Aaftab wished to be rid of her, Delhi Police sources say.
The 6,629-page preliminary chargesheet says that Aftab, 28, and Shraddha, 27, had a battle on their ‘anniversary’ (the day that they had first met) on Might 17, 2022, after which she stayed the evening in the home of a male good friend she had met on a relationship app. Aftab killed her the next day when she returned dwelling.
Police invoked Part 201 of the Indian Penal Code coping with destruction of proof to explain Aftab’s grotesque act of dismembering the physique of his associate into 18-24 items, storing them within the fridge for months and disposing of them at varied places.
Tuesday’s was the preliminary chargesheet. Filed two weeks earlier than the deadline, it meets the requirement for police to file costs inside three months of the arrest of an individual. A supplementary report will probably be filed by subsequent month.
Placing on file the restoration of 18 items of the sufferer’s physique, all confirmed by forensic and different superior exams to belong to Shraddha, police have backed their claims of homicide with circumstantial and technical proof. Whereas the DNA and mitochondrial exams confirmed the murdered lady to be the lacking Shraddha, there have been anomalies in communication patterns that indicated Aftab’s complicity, issues like change from the same old order of meals for 2 individuals to 1 on meals apps after Shraddha’s disappearance, Google places, CCTV footage, name places and different technical particulars.
Layered voice evaluation exams additionally confirmed Aaftab’s voice in some telephonic recordings of Shraddha. Her criticism to Mumbai Police about Aaftab’s risk that he would chop her physique into items has been duly recorded within the chargesheet.
A complete of 182 witnesses have been examined and their statements recorded, amongst them the male good friend who Shraddha went to satisfy, her relations, mates, her former work supervisor, the couple’s frequent good friend Badri, the {hardware} store proprietor who offered him the reducing implements, the digital store from the place Aaftab buy the fridge and the girl who met Aaftab at his residence after Shraddha’s homicide. Shraddha’s conversations along with her former work supervisor the place she speaks about Aaftab assaulting her was a part of the investigation and is talked about within the chargesheet.
As per the chargesheet, Aaftab used a number of implements to cut the physique, together with a knife, scissors and a noticed. Whereas police recovered a few of them, they discovered no hint of blood on them. Nonetheless, the narco evaluation and polygraph check reviews have been in keeping with the police investigation and there was sufficient circumstantial proof to determine that he had murdered his associate.
His GPS places confirmed him current on the place of homicide — his rented flat in Chhatarpur Pahadi. The cops recovered CCTV footage from Chhatarpur Pahadi and Gurgaon displaying the accused leaving his residence with a bag in early hours, allegedly to get rid of the sufferer’s physique items. DNA and mitochondrial DNA reviews confirmed that the bones recovered from the forested space in south Delhi have been a match with these of Shraddha’s father and brother.
The gory homicide got here to gentle on November 8, 2022, when the Manikpur police in Maharashtra revealed particulars of a lacking lady. On November 9, a report on a lacking lady was registered at Mehrauli police station in Delhi. A day later, an FIR was registered relating to the kidnapping of Shraddha, based mostly on the assertion made by her father on the Mehrauli police station. Performing rapidly, Delhi Police arrested Aaftab on November 11 final yr. To observe up the sensational homicide case, the cops fashioned a particular investigation workforce with 9 teams. They went to Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gurgaon, Haryana and Delhi in pursuit of clinching proof towards the accused.
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