Aftab dated doctor days after killing Shraddha: Report

Delhi Police have traced the woman whom Aftab Amin Poonawala started dating days after he allegedly murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walker and chopped her body into pieces. Reports said the woman is a doctor by profession and Aftab met her on the same dating app where he had also met Shraddha.

Delhi Police had earlier claimed that Aftab had brought a woman to his apartment even when the victim's severed body parts were still lying in his refrigerator. The investigators then contacted the dating app, Bumble, to get details about his profile and those of other women he might have met online.

Aftab, 28, allegedly strangled his live-in partner and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days. The crime took place on May 18, but the horrific details came out after Aftab was arrested earlier this month.

According to NDTV, the Delhi Police have already contacted the woman, who is a psychologist.

Meanwhile, Delhi's Saket court on Saturday sent Aftab to judicial custody for 13 days.

Police had completed the polygraph test of the accused on Friday at the Forensic Science Laboratory at Rohini in Delhi.

A series of questions related to the case such as the sequences of events that led to the murder, the accused's relationship with Shraddha, reason for their strained relationship, place where he dumped the body parts, type of weapon used, were among some of the questions asked in the test, reported PTI.

The intention was to check for discrepancies in his statement and the results will be handed over to the investigators within two-three days, an official told the news agency.

"Our forensic experts will analyse the recordings and make a report accordingly. He (Poonawala) can be called again if the experts are not satisfied with the report. Based on the outcome of the report, a decision will be taken on conducting narco analysis which can be carried out even if he is sent to judicial custody," he said.