The Saket District Court at Delhi on Saturday remanded to judicial custody Aftab Poonawalla, who is accused of brutally killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar..Judge Aviral Shukla passed the order today after conducting the hearing through video conferencing. ANI reports that Poonawalla has been sent to thirteen days of judicial custody..On November 22, the judge had extended Poonawalla's police custody by four days.Last week, the Court had permitted the police to conduct a narco-analysis test on the accused..Poonawalla and Walkar had entered into a live-in relationship after meeting on dating app Bumble. They were initially based out of Mumbai before shifting to Delhi early this year.According to police investigating the crime, on May 18, after a quarrel between the couple in a rented flat in Mehrauli, the accused strangulated the victim, chopped her body into 35 pieces, stored it in a fridge and later dumped the pieces in different parts of the city over the next 18 days..The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking the transfer of the investigation in the Shraddha Walkar murder case from the Delhi Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
