NEW DELHI: More information are out in the incident of a youth killing his lover Shraddha Walkar and then chopping her body into 35 pieces. The police said the accused Aftab Ameen Poonawala brought another woman home after days of the murder. Police said that he met this new lover through the dating app Bumble. He met Shraddha also on this app.
Aftab was in a relationship with Shraddha for nearly three years. The accused who killed Shraddha five months back and stacked her body parts in the fridge, met another woman on the dating app in 15-20 days. He had brought her home frequently when Shraddha’s body was in the apartment. He then moved the parts to a cupboard.
28-year-old Aftab told police that he killed her after she forced him to marry her. She was a native of Palghar in Maharashtra and a call center employee of a multinational company. He used to wake up at 2 am and stuff each part in a polythene cover and dispose it in the forest are of Mehrauli. He disposed the pieces completely in 18 days. The samples recovered so far have been sent for forensic examination.
The accused was a food blogger working at a call center in the national capital.