Packet with Shraddha's head found in Ggn? Aaftab says cut body into 18 pieces

The police team probing Shraddha Walkar’s murder recovered a packet that could be the missing head of the victim. It was highly decomposed and has been sent for forensic examination.

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New Delhi: It was found in a forested area in Gurgaon near her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala’s former office on a day he revised his statement and said he had chopped the corpse into 17-18 pieces and not 35.

Investigators are also trying to find the missing motive: was it his fear of being exposed by her? Police sources said that Aaftab smoked cannabis and had done so on the day of the murder. Shraddha regularly upbraided him for this as perhaps she did on the day she was killed. 

Mumbai: As details of domestic violence by her live-in-partner Aaftab Poonawala at their Vasai home, including Shraddha Walkar’s hospitalisation, as early as November and December of 2020, surfaced on Friday, police are investigating if Covid lockdown restrictions made it difficult for the victim to seek help.

Poonawala is charged with the murder of Walkar on May 18 in their Chhatarpur Pahadi flat in south Delhi. It has emerged that Walkar was being subjected to beatings.