Aftab Amin Poonawala, the accused in the brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, might have confessed to his crime, co-operated with questioning, and readily agreed to a polygraph test and narco analysis. But the Delhi Police is not convinced with his 'good' behaviour and they suspect that this could be part of his plans, reports suggest.
An investigation officer told news agency ANI that Aftab is very clever and can anytime bring a new 'twist' to the case.
The probe team's suspicion is buttressed by the fact that Aftab had earlier tried to misguide the Mumbai Police. He had told the police that Shraddha had left the apartment on May 22 after an argument with him and that she had taken her cell phone with her.
Ever since Aftab landed in Delhi Police's custody, he has completely obeyed what the police told him to do
Police wanted to conduct Aftab's narco test at the earliest to find out if anything new is brewing in his mind. The test was earlier scheduled on December 5, but a Delhi court on Tuesday allowed to advance it to December 1.
Aftab underwent a narco analysis test for almost two hours at a hospital in Rohini on Thursday. The investigators will now analyse the answers he gave during his polygraph and narco tests. Though these confessions during these tests cannot be produced as evidence in court, these techniques are used by investigating agencies to get to the truth and gather evidence.
'Aftab keenly followed famous murder trials'
Meanwhile, a Times of India report on Thursday claimed that Aftab had researched behaviour patterns and read up on famous murder trials and how celebrities behaved during such cases. He keenly followed the investigation and the circumstances in cases that had led to the acquittal or conviction of the main accused.
"The calmness he exhibits under various situations might be due to the research he did after killing Shraddha. But he had deleted a few internet searches from his phone," an officer told TOI.
Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawalla allegedly strangled his live-in partner Walkar 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.
He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, which was further extended by five days on November 17. The court on November 26 sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.
