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Delhi News Highlights: Premature to provide any single theory, says Delhi Police on Shraddha Walkar murder case

Delhi murder case Highlights: The Delhi Police have formed multiple teams to visit Gurgaon, Mumbai, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in connection with the investigation into  Shraddha Walkar’s murder.

Aaftab Poonawala is accused of killing his 27-year-old live-in-partner Shraddha Walkar (PTI/File)

Delhi News Highlights:  The Delhi Police on Friday said that Aaftab Poonawala, who is accused of murdering his 27-year-old live-in-partner Shraddha Walkar, has tried to mislead the interrogators by claiming that she “had severed her relationship with him and had left their live-in rented accommodation”. In a status note, the police said, “Each uttering of the accused is being assessed upon the crucible of admissible evidentiary value. Multiple teams are camping outstation to recreate the lives of accused and (the victim) together; similarly, multiple teams are carrying out search operations to recover the missing skeletal parts. Several inter-disciplinary teams are working round the clock for documenting, finding discrepancies and further refining the versions and the motives being put forth by the accused.”
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Aaftab Poonawala and Shraddha Walkar met on a dating app in 2019. According to friends, they had a toxic, abusive relationship.

Aaftab, Shraddha ‘argued over who would spend to make trip to Mumbai’, say police

Aaftab Poonawala, the 28-year-old accused of killing his 27-year-old live-in partner Shraddha Walkar on May 18, chopping her body into over 30 parts and disposing them over 2-3 months, is learnt to have told police the two had recently been arguing over who would go to Mumbai to fetch their luggage to Delhi – since both of them were facing a cash crunch.

While Delhi police are taking everything with a grain of salt – on Wednesday they moved an application in court to conduct a narco test on Aaftab – investigators say he has pointed to money issues becoming a factor in the couple’s relationship of late, since both had left their jobs in Mumbai and backpacked across Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand before they came to Delhi and took up a house on rent for Rs 9,000.

Aaftab is learnt to have told police he refused Walkar’s request to fetch their belongings from Mumbai, and had also been urging her to vacate their shared apartment in South Delhi’s Chattarpur Pahadi.

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