Delhi: In a case of a romance gone terribly wrong, a man strangled his girlfriend, chopped her into pieces and scattered her body parts across Delhi.
The victim, 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar, had been in a live-in relationship with Aaftab Amin Poonawala. They had eloped to Delhi after her parents objected to their being together.
However, things soured between the couple when Shraddha started pressing Aaftab for marriage. Little could she have imagined that her partner, reluctant to tie the knot, would put an end to things in such a horrifyingly ghastly way.
The murder of Shraddha, by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla, is throwing up shocking details. Not only did Aftab dismember Shraddha's body, but chalked out a plan to keep her mortal remains unretrievable by the authorities.
After strangulating Shraddha and chopping up her body, Aftab allegedly purchased a 300-litre refrigerator to store the parts that he then threw away in parts of a Delhi forest over 16 days. After being nabbed by police, Aftab said during his interrogation that he had been in a live-in relationship with the murder victim.
He admitted to keeping her body pieces in the refrigerator and leaving his flat each night to dispose of a portion of her body to the police. He claimed to have done so near forests and in the nation's capital. He needed 16 days to dispose of all the body parts.
According to Aftab, he divided Shraddha's body into 35 pieces. Aftab revealed his strategy for hiding the heinous act, saying that he burned incense sticks to mask the vile smell of her dead body.
According to the police, Aftab killed Sharddha following an argument on May 18. He then dismembered her body with a sharp weapon and bought a fridge to store the chopped parts. The crime was solved five months later with his arrest on Monday, November 14.
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