Shraddha Walkar case: Police continue searches in Delhi and Gurgaon, recover parts of skull and bones

Police have only two days left to conduct searches and find evidence in Poonawala’s presence as his custody will end Tuesday. Police will send him for a narco-analysis test on either Monday or Tuesday as they suspect he is misleading them.

On Sunday, a team also went to Gurgaon, where the accused worked at a call centre, for the third consecutive day and conducted searches around DLF Phase 3 forest area and other localities as they suspect he might have dumped the murder weapon, Walkar’s phone and body parts on his way to work.

Poonawala was also taken to the room at the couple’s rented Chhattarpur Pahadi flat where he allegedly killed Walkar. Police said they were looking for the bag he carried while allegedly discarding the body parts in Mehrauli forest.

At present, police have recovered 17 suspected human bones from the Mehrauli forest area.

Officers have been trying to ‘recreate’ the scenes at the time of the murder and how Poonawala allegedly dumped the body parts. This was the third time they recreated the scenes as the accused had allegedly misled police earlier.

Meanwhile, police teams in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra have been questioning hotel owners, landlords and friends about Poonawala’s behaviour, the couple’s relationship, alleged domestic violence among other things.

Poonawala was arrested last week. The incident took place in May and the matter came to light after Walkar’s family approached Mumbai Police in October to look for their daughter. Police are yet to find key evidence — the murder weapon, blood-stained clothes, body parts, and Walkar’s phone. Forensic analysis of bones collected from the forest area in Mehrauli and Gurgaon is awaited.