Saket court extends police custody of Aftab Poonawala for the next 4 days in Shraddha Walkar murder case. He was produced before the court in a special hearing.

Today’s update: Aaftab Poonawala, the prime accused in the Shraddha Walker murder case, disposed off the blade and saw he used to chop up the body of his live-in partner into the bushes in Gurugram’s DLF Phase 3, Delhi Police sources said on Tuesday.

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Aftab Poonawala also told the court that it (the incident) happened in the heat of the moment. He said he is cooperating in the investigation. He further told the court that he is having difficulty in recalling the incident.

Aaftab, allegedly strangled and then chopped to pieces the body of Shraddha Walker in May this year.

Delhi Police sources further said that the accused Aaftab threw the cleaver knife he used in chopping up the body into a garbage dump in the Mehrauli area.

A Delhi Police team has so far conducted searches, twice, in the forested area in Gurugram to recover the search of the blade and saw.

“On the first day of the investigation on November 18, the Delhi Police team found some evidence from the bushes of Gurugram, which has been sent for Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) investigation. However, on the second day on November 19 of the investigation the Delhi Police searched with a metal detector but did not find anything there,” said sources.

They further said that the Delhi Police also took Aaftab to the shop from where he had bought the saw blade, which is 250 meters away from his house.

Aaftab was produced before the Saket court here after the expiry of his five-day police custody. The court extended police custody of Aaftab for the next four days in the Shraddha Walkar murder case.

He was produced on a special hearing on November 22. The Delhi Police has moved a lower court seeking permission to conduct a polygraph test on Aaftab. Police had earlier said Aaftab, who confessed to killing his live-in partner and chopping her body into 35 pieces, was giving misleading answers to questions.