Police
investigating the Shraddha Walkar murder case have found a new and important
lead. The sharp object likely to have been used to slash Shraddha’s body after her live-in partner
Aftab Amin Poonawala allegedly strangled her to death has been recovered, NDTV reported.

Police also recovered a heavy polythene bag from Aftab’s workplace in Gurugram on Friday. 

Police sources have told the media that on May 18, the day of the murder, Aftab and Shraddha had an argument after which Aftab went out and smoked marijuana. When he returned, Shraddha rebuked him. Aftab got angry and strangled Shraddha to death. 

“The victim was strangled to death between 9 pm and 10 pm, and the accused, Aftab, sat next to her body the whole night and smoked marijuana,” police sources told ANI. 

Aftab is alleged to have cut Shraddha’s dead body into 35 pieces and spread them all around. The accused has reportedly confessed to putting some of the pieces in Dehradun. 

Aftab Amin Poonawala was presented before a Delhi court on Thursday. The court extended police custody of the accused for five days and also allowed the cops to undertake a narco test. 

Meanwhile, Shraddha Walkar’s chat history has revealed that this was not the first time the accused had beaten her up. 

On one occasion, when the couple was living in Mumbai, a chat shows Shraddha telling the manager at her workplace that she cannot get to work due to the beating she had received. 

“I won’t be able to make it today because from all the beating yesterday my BP is low and my body hurts. I don’t have the energy to get off the bed,” she wrote to her manager. Screenshots of the conversation are now with the Delhi Police. 

A week after this, Shraddha was hospitalised for internal injuries. The hospital report listed “severe back pain, nausea, neck pain, difficulty in movement of neck, and tingling numbness in lower limb.”