Aaftab Poonawala made another girlfriend 5 days after Shraddha’s murder, says Delhi Police

The accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Aaftab Poonawala, made another girlfriend only five days after murdering her, revealed the Delhi Police chargesheet.

Aaftab Poonawala killed her live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in their flat in South Delhi (Photo: File)

By Arvind Ojha: Aaftab Poonawala made another girlfriend only five days after murdering live-in partner Shraddha Walkar through dating app Bumble, revealed Delhi Police chargesheet.

The Delhi Police in Shraddha murder case chargesheet revealed that Aaftab came in contact with another girl through the Bumble app on May 24.

Soon, the two became close and the girl used to visit him at his flat where he chopped Shraddha’s body parts into 35 pieces and dumped them in the Mehrauli forest area over a period of 18 days.

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The girl first came to Aaftab’s Chhatarpur flat on June 25. After June 25, that girl used to come to Aaftab’s flat continuously. She even spent several nights in that flat, revealed the chargesheet.

Aaftab told the police that when the girl used to come to the flat, he would take out pieces of Shraddha’s body from the fridge and put them in the lower cabinet of the kitchen and clean the fridge completely.

He used to take out the chopped body parts from the fridge and hide them in the kitchen whenever the girl used to visit him. He would put back the chopped body parts, which included her head, back in the fridge after her exit.

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Aaftab told police that he gave Shraddha’s silver ring to that girl when she first came to that flat as a gift.

Later that ring was also recovered by the police from that girl.

Aaftab had thrown Shraddha’s mobile phone, credit card, debit card everything in Bhayandar Bay in Mumbai because he knew that it was very deep, said the chargesheet by the Delhi Police.

Aaftab Poonawala strangled Shraddha Walkar (27), sawed her body into 35 pieces and stored 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. Walkar was allegedly killed in May.

The two met on a dating app in 2019 and moved in together in Delhi after staying in Mumbai for some time. Aaftab and Shraddha fought over household expenses, infidelity and other issues and their relationship was strained, the police said.