Killed Shraddha in ‘heat of the moment’: Aaftab Poonawala tells court

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Aaftab Amin Poonawala on Tuesday told a Delhi court that murdered his girlfriend in the ‘heat of the moment’.The Saket court on Tuesday extended the police custody of Aftab Poonawala to four more days after he was produced before the court via video conferencing in a special hearing.

Aaftab was produced before the Saket court in New Delhi after his five-day police custody expired. “What happened that happened in heat of the moment,” Aaftab told the court. Aaftab also said that he is cooperating in the investigation. He further told the court that he is having difficulty in recalling the incident. The accused allegedly strangled and then chopped to pieces the body of his live-in partner Shraddha Walker in May this year.

The Delhi Police has also moved a lower court seeking permission to conduct a polygraph test on Poonawala. Police had earlier said Poonawala, who confessed to killing his live-in partner and chopping her body into 35 pieces, was giving misleading answers to questions. Metropolitan magistrate Aviral Shukla of Saket Court referred the matter to Magistrate Vijayshree Rathore, who granted permission for a narco analysis test on Aftab.