Aaftab Poonawala has taken part of the lie detection test. (File)
New Delhi:
Aaftab Poonawala, detained for the murder of girlfriend Shraddha Walkar, will be kept under 24-hour CCTV surveillance in his cell, Tihar jail sources said.
He is being held in Tihar Prison Number 4, which is for first offenders, and the smallest of his activities are under observation, it has been learned.
A court in Delhi today sent him into judicial custody, while police, to find more leads, put a string on a woman who had visited his residence after the murder.
Shocking details continue to emerge in the case where Aaftab Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300 liter refrigerator at his home in Mehrauli and held in batches for 18 days dumped. The live-in couple from Maharashtra had recently moved into the rented flat in Delhi where they got into an argument over the charges that were mounting. They had a toxic relationship for at least two years, according to the police investigation.
Following the custody order today, Aaftab Poonawala was medically examined as per procedure. Not only is he in jail, but all precautions regarding his safety and security are being taken, the new agency PTI quoted an official saying.
He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five days of police custody, which was extended for another five days on November 17. On Tuesday, he was sent to another four days of police custody.
Meanwhile, police also questioned a woman who had visited his apartment a few days after the murder.
He got in touch with the woman, a psychologist, through a dating app — the same app through which he had met Shraddha Walkar more than three years ago — and called her at his home, police said.
Sources in the investigative team said that the pieces of Shraddha Walkar’s body were still in the refrigerator when he called the psychologist.
On Friday, his polygraph test — one of the two most important tests as part of a lie-detection process — took nearly three hours. His narco-analysis test will take place in the next few days.
Police had confiscated five knives from his flat and sent them to the forensic lab to check if they had been used in the crime. Police had previously said that a saw allegedly used to dismember Shraddha Walkar’s body has yet to be recovered.
Also, the police said it is yet to receive a DNA test report to confirm whether body parts found in the jungle are indeed Shraddha Walkar’s.
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