In a shocking incident, a man allegedly strangled his live-in partner over the course of 18 days, hacked up her body into 35 pieces, and deposited the fragments in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest. He dumped the body pieces every day at 2 a.m., according to sources.
On May 18, after an altercation with Shraddha, Aftab Ameen Poonawalla allegedly strangled her. Sources claim that he then cut her body into 35 parts and bought a 300-liter refrigerator to store them. They claimed that over the course of the following 18 days, he scattered the fragments around the Mehrauli forest.
Shraddha, 26, met Poonawalla while working at a call centre for a large corporation in Mumbai. They began dating and later resided together. The couple eloped and arrived Delhi when her family snubbed their relationship. They moved into a Mehrauli apartment to begin with.
Soon after, Shraddha stopped returning calls from her relatives. When her father, Vikas Madaan, visited Delhi on November 8 to see how his daughter was doing, he discovered a lock on her apartment. He went to the Mehrauli Police and reported an alleged kidnapping.
He filed a complaint, and the police detained Poonawalla on Saturday. According to police sources, he admitted throughout the investigation that they constantly quarrelled because Shraddha wanted to wed him.
The police have filed a case of murder against Poonawalla.
Police reported that some remains had been found in the woodland, although it is unknown whether they are human remains. Also undiscovered is the accused’s knife, despite his culinary training.