A police van carrying Aftab Amin poonawala, accused in the brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, was attacked by a group of sword-wielding people on Monday evening. The incident took place outside the the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini where Aftab underwent a pending session of his polygraph test.
According to ANI, the attackers claimed that they were members of the Hindu Sena. Police have detained at least two persons and seized the weapons.
Aftab is safe and the vehicle was driven out of the spot, police said.
In one of the video clips circulating on social media, the attackers can be heard saying that they belonged to the right-wing group and that their intention was to avenge the killing of Shraddha by chopping Aftab into pieces.
#WATCH | Police van carrying Shradhha murder accused Aftab Poonawalla attacked by at least 2 men carrying swords who claim to be from Hindu Sena, outside FSL office in Delhi pic.twitter.com/Bpx4WCvqXs
— ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2022
The Hindu Sena, however, said that the organisation does not support any such work which is against the Constitution of India.
"Whatever these activists have done is by reacting to their personal feelings. The whole country got to know how Poonawala cut a Hindu girl into pieces," Hindu Sena national president Vishnu Gupta said.
Aftab allegedly strangled Shraddha and chopped her body into over 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his Mehrauli residence in South Delhi, before dumping them in different parts of a forest area over the next several days.
Though the murder allegedly took place on May 17, the bone chilling details of the crime started trickling out after November 12 following Aftab's arrest by the Delhi Police.
A Delhi court initially sent him to five-day police custody which was further extended by five days on November 17. On Tuesday, he was sent to four more days of police custody. On Saturday, the court sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.
