The murder of 26-year-old 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 confessed to the police that he kept her body parts in the fridge and used to exit his apartment every night to dispose of a piece of her body. He said that he did so in the national capital and he did it around forest areas. It took him 16 days to completely dispose of the body parts.Aftab said that he chopped up Shraddha’s body into 35 pieces. Disclosing his modus operandi to conceal the heinous crime, Aftab said that he used incense sticks and burnt them to keep the foul smell of her mortal remains at bay.
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.
