Shraddha Walkar

A Delhi court has expedited the shraddha walkar murder trial, setting it for day-to-day hearings from July 20. Aftab Poonawala is accused of killing his live-in partner in May. The case details reveal a strained family relationship for Walkar and her meeting Poonawala on a dating app, leading to a live-in relationship despite parental objections.

A Delhi court on Tuesday granted Delhi Police four more days of custody of Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who allegedly killed his 27-year-old live-in-partner shraddha walkar and dismembered her body, said a senior official. Poonawala's five-day police custody ended today.

shraddha walkar murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala underwent a narco analysis test for almost two hours at a hospital in Rohini on Thursday as part of the ongoing investigation in the case, officials said.

A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges of murder and causing disappearance of evidence against Aaftab Poonawala, who is accused of killing his live-in partner, shraddha walkar, and then chopping her body into pieces.

The Delhi police team that is in Vasai probing the murder of shraddha walkar on Thursday recorded the statement of a Vasai-based dentist where she had a few dental sittings in 2021. The team visited Dr Ishan Mota’s clinic to record his statement and also collect Shraddha’s dental treatment case files, X-rays and details of bill payment made with her credit card then.

Aaftab Amin Poonawala will be taken to different locations in south Delhi on Saturday as the Delhi Police are trying to locate more body parts which he had allegedly disposed of after killing his live-in partner shraddha walkar, officials said.

The trial in the 2022 shraddha walkar murder case began in Delhi's Saket court against accused Aaftab Poonawala on Thursday with the recording of the statement of prosecution witnesses.

In the interest of justice, the murder case of shraddha walkar should be heard in a fast-track court, her father said on Monday.

In a major development in the shraddha walkar murder case, the Delhi Police is likely to write to the dating app Bumble to find out the details of women who visited accused Aaftab Ameen Poonawala in his house when the body was still in the refrigerator.

Aftab Poonawala, accused of killing her live-in partner shraddha walkar, had accompanied Walkar when she was brought to a hospital in Mumbai for acute shoulder and back pain in the year 2020, news agency ANI quoted the doctor who treated the girl as saying, on Friday.

The Delhi Police on Tuesday said Aaftab Amin Poonawala didn't like his live-in partner shraddha walkar's meeting with another friend and he turned violent.

The shraddha walkar murder case made much headway on Thursday with two important development taking place.

The Delhi Police has recovered the weapon allegedly used by Aaftab Amin Poonawala to chop up the body of his live-in partner shraddha walkar, reported news agency PTI quoting sources on Monday.

Traces of blood stains have been recovered from the bathroom of the rented accommodation in Chattarpur which Aaftab Ameen Poonawalla shared with his live-in partner shraddha walkar, TV reports said quoting sources on Tuesday.

The legal aid counsel for Aaftab Poonawala, who has been accused of killing his live-in partner shraddha walkar, sought time to present arguments after the special public prosecutors submitted their case in front of a Delhi court on Tuesday.

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced a special investigation team (SIT) for an inquiry into the alleged month-long delay by Palghar police in taking action in 2020 when shraddha walkar made a written domestic violence complaint against her live-in partner, Aaftab Poonawala

The autopsy report of shraddha walkar has confirmed that her body was chopped with a saw-like object, sources said on Saturday. This is significant because it will give scientific proof to the cops against her live-in partner, Aaftab Amin Poonawala.

shraddha walkar had accused her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala of threatening to kill her and cut her body into pieces in a letter written to the police in 2020.The newly surfaced letter, which sheds further light on the grisly murder case, reveals that Aaftab was a serial offender and used to thrash Shraddha regularly. "It's been six months he has been hitting me," the letter, dated November 23, 2020, read.

Vikas Walkar, father of shraddha walkar, who was murdered by her partner Aftab Poonawalla in 2022, died of a cardiac arrest at his residence in Vasai West. Shraddha’s murder case, which revealed gruesome details, is still open, and Vikas had been actively pursuing justice for his daughter.

A day after a city court extended the police custody of Aaftab Amin Poonawala by five days, a Delhi Police team — probing the killing of shraddha walkar — visited the office of a private firm in Gurugram in Haryana where the accused (Poonawala) used to work, PTI quoted officials as saying on Friday.

The bathroom tiles in Aaftab Poonawala’s rented flat in south Delhi may help the cops nail him for the alleged murder of his live-in partner, shraddha walkar. The forensics team is learnt to have recovered crucial bloodstains and spots that may prove key to the investigation.

A Delhi court on Saturday sent Aaftab Poonawalla, accused of killing his live-in partner shraddha walkar and chopping her body into 35 pieces, to 13-day judicial custody.

Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said a special team would probe why the Mira-Bhayander police did not act on a complaint filed by shraddha walkar against Aaftab Amin Poonawala in November 2020.

Terming it a 'publicity interest litigation', the Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed with costs a PIL seeking directions for the shraddha walkar murder investigation to be transferred from Delhi Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The court, however, did not specify the cost amount.

A court in Saket has allowed Delhi Police to produce Aaftab Poonawalla before the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini to conduct his narco and polygraph test from December 1 in connection with the shraddha walkar murder case, news agency ANI reported quoting sources.

Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, accused in the Shraddha Walker murder case, had attempted to dupe the police of Delhi and Mumbai, and had tried to hide the murder by removing any physical evidence, however, he had left the digital evidence that the police traced to reach the truth of the case. Here's the full coverage:

Aaftab Poonawala reportedly told police during interrogation that he was outraged at shraddha walkar going on a purported date on May 17.

shraddha walkar, the 27-year-old woman who was chopped to pieces allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in May last year, had told a psychiatric counsellor online that her boyfriend had repeatedly threatened to "hunt", "find" and "kill" her.