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In its chargesheet, the Delhi Police have revealed the elaborate plan hatched by Aaftab Poonawalla to dispose of his girlfriend Shraddha’s body.
Aaftab Poonawalla killed his girlfriend Shraddha Walker in a brutal fashion at a Delhi apartment in May last year. Before the murder, Aaftab beat her up many times in the past. In 2020, she filed a complaint with Mumbai Police against her boyfriend but the cops took no action.
The complaint is part of the Delhi Police chargesheet filed in a local court. It was lodged at Evershine City police station in Mumbai on November 23, 2020.
According to the complaint, Aaftab attempted to murder his girlfriend Aaftab and threatened to cut her into pieces when they were living in rented accommodation in Mumbai. “Today he tried to kill me by suffocating me. He scares and blackmails me that he will kill me and cut me up in pieces and throw them away,” it reads.
Following the physical assault, Shraddha lived in a hotel for two days but decided to patch up with him and they again started living together in a flat.
Shraddha and Aaftab – who met through the dating app Bumble in May 2019 – shared a chequered relationship. As per Shraddha’s friends, whose statements and mobile chats are part of the chargesheet, Aaftab was moody and violent.
He would become very violent but take a soft approach quite soon, and Shraddha would always pardon him.
The couple laid out a plan to improve their relationship but it did not work. They visited Rishikesh and Manali in April and decided to give more time to their relations. As per the plan, they decided to continue living together in the apartment, but their fights continued.
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On May 17, Shraddha went to Gurugram to meet one of her male friends and stayed with him for the night. On May 18, she returned back to their Chttarpur flat and was murdered by the accused the same night, as per the chargesheet.
The police have also recorded the statement of the auto driver who picked up Shraddha from Ghitorni metro station and dropped her at her Chattarpur flat.
On fateful day: Meal for two, dinner for one
The chargesheet revealed that Aaftab ordered food from Zomato for lunch that would suffice for two persons on the fateful day i.e. May 18. However, he ordered a chicken roll in the night, implying that Shraddha was alive at the time of lunch and dead by dinner time.
Police said after strangling her to death, the accused took the body to the bathroom as he explored ideas to dispose it of. The next day, he went to a shop and bought a paring knife, one Chinese chopper and black-coloured trash bags weighing half a kilogram.
320-L water, 11 kg dry ice to clean blood & preserve body parts
He also ordered two bottles of Harpic toilet cleaner bleach (500 ml), Harpic liquid toilet cleaner, Godrej hand wash (750 ml), two glass cleaner (500 ml), chopping board, one Snicker chocolate, a mango-based beverage from Blinkit, that were delivered on May 19. “This fact has been corroborated by digital payments and Blinkit App, and statements of delivery,” as per the chargesheet.
The order of a chocolate bar and a mango drink confirms that he had already committed the murder and was alone, said the police.
He also ordered six bottles of water (20 litres each) to clean up the blood because the area was reeling under a scarce water supply. Government-pumped water was available only in the morning and the evening at that time.
On the next day, he again bought five bottles of water, and on May 21, he again bought five more bottles of water. He had also contributed ₹300 out of ₹600 for a tanker full of water ordered by another tenant Mahender on May 22.
“This unusual need and use of water are evident enough that on May 19, 20 and 21, he cut the body into pieces and used this much amount of water to clean the blood,” said police in the chargesheet.
On May 20, Aaftab purchased 11 kg of dry ice to preserve the body parts.
In the chargesheet, the police also said that Aaftab initially tried to mislead the interrogators by telling that he grind the bones and body parts of Shraddha in a stone grinder and then burnt them till they become powder. Then he threw them on the terrace and streets. Later he revealed that he threw the body parts into Chattarpur jungles.
The chargesheet running into 6629 pages was filed by the Delhi Police on January 24. The court took cognisance of the chargesheet on Tuesday.
