Aftab Poonawala led cops to Shraddha Walkar’s physique elements in Delhi’s Mehrauli, stated investigators.
New Delhi:
From hacking the physique, to purchasing a brand new fridge for it, after which throwing these right into a jungle over days — Aftab Poonawala’s homicide of his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar in Delhi has a number of similarities with Dehradun’s Anupama Gulati homicide case from 2010. Aftab Poonawala’s web search historical past exhibits he examine that case, police at the moment stated.
Arrested earlier this week, Aftab Poonawala had killed Shraddha Walkar in Could, however police received concerned final month as her father got here wanting. The mother and father had not been in contact with the younger lady as they had been against her inter-religion (Hindu-Muslim) relationship.
Within the Anupama Gulati case, her husband Rajesh Gulati was sentenced to life in jail in 2017, seven years after he was arrested because the sufferer’s mother and father got here in search of her. He’d managed to cover the homicide for 2 months, whereas Aftab Poonawala went about life as if nothing had occurred — even bringing associates over to his flat — for shut to 6 months.
The Dehradun killer, too, had drawn inspiration from fiction — particularly from Hollywood films — simply as Aftab Poonawala allegedly adopted plotlines from TV sequence ‘Dexter’ to cowl up the crime after they’d strangled the ladies to demise.
Each killers purchased fridges to retailer the hacked our bodies. Rajesh Gulati lower the physique into greater than 70 items and saved these in a big deep-freezer for 3 months, eliminating these in batches within the jungles of close by hill station Mussoorie over days, often when he would drop his kids off to high school within the morning.
Police stated Aftab Poonawala purchased a 300-litre fridge after he killed Shraddha Walkar on Could 18, and threw the items over 18 days in a jungle close to Mehrauli, an space in any other case recognized for monuments such because the Qutub Minar.
The quilt-up makes an attempt have extra parallels, in how Rajesh Gulati spoke to his spouse’s brother on her telephone to make it appear to be she was nice.
Aftab Poonawala used his girlfriend’s Instagram account to talk together with her associates, attempting the same tactic. However her associates grew suspicious and advised her father, who had not spoken to her since final yr, that she’d been inactive for months.
The Instagram chats grew to become key proof as cops from Delhi and Maharashtra — the couple’s residence state — cracked the case in about three weeks after the daddy filed a ‘lacking’ report.
Within the Dehradun case, police discovered among the physique items nonetheless within the freezer. Aftab Poonawala had disposed of all, and has to this point led the cops to at the very least 10.
Educated and dealing with IT companies, the {couples} in each instances had arguments over suspicions of getting amorous affairs outdoors of the connection.
Delhi police intend to conduct DNA examination and lie-detector exams to tie up the ends.
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