The judicial custody of Aftab Poonawala, accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, was extended by 14 days on Friday. Aftab was produced before a Delhi court through videoconferencing. Demanding justice for his daughter, Shraddha's father Vikas Walkar has said he wanted Aftab to get maximum punishment.
Speaking to the media after meeting Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, he said he had full faith in the judiciary. He also said that Fadnavis has assured him of justice. “Hope such an incident never gets repeated,” he said, adding that Aftab's family's involvement in the murder must be probed.
“My daughter was brutally murdered. I faced many problems because of the Vasai police, if they would have helped me, my daughter would have been alive,” he said.
In the last hearing in the case on November 26, the court had extended the judicial custody of the accused by 13 days.
Aftab underwent narco test and multiple rounds of the polygraph test recently. Aftab allegedly strangled Shraddha in May, chopped her body into multiple pieces and disposed of them in different parts of the city. The Delhi police have reportedly recovered 13 body parts from the Mehrauli forest area but have not been able to ascertain if they belong to Shraddha. The DNA test results are not yet available.
