Shraddha Walkar: Prepared to assist Delhi cops in Shraddha Walkar homicide case: Maha police

Police in Vasai city close to Mumbai are prepared to increase all assist to their Delhi counterparts within the investigation of brutal homicide of name centre worker Shraddha Walkar, allegedly by her live-in companion Aaftab Poonawala, a senior official mentioned on Tuesday.

The senior official of the Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar police instructed PTI, “We are going to assist the Delhi police in reference to the Shraddha Walkar homicide case in the event that they want any assist or strategy us for help.” Poonawala (28) has been arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly murdering Walkar, who had stayed in Vasai, in Could this 12 months, chopping the physique into 35 items earlier than dumping them at totally different locations within the nationwide capital over a number of days.

“After registering a lacking grievance (filed by her father), we now have forwarded all particulars to the Delhi police. In the event that they (Delhi cops) strategy us, we’ll present all of them potential assist,” mentioned the official. “Accused Poonawala’s members of the family left their Vasai-based flat round 15 days again and we have no information about them. How can we name them for interrogation as nothing has occur in our jurisdiction,” he mentioned.

The Vasai police in Palghar district have already interrogated the accused within the Walkar lacking case, mentioned the official. “Nonetheless, we’re preserving a detailed tab on developments within the homicide case,” he added.

As per the police in Vasai city, Walkar, a graduate in mass media, labored at a name centre within the Malad space of Mumbai and met Poonawala by way of a courting app in 2019. A buddy of the lady, who had alerted her members of the family after being unable to contact her, mentioned, “As soon as Walkar (when she was residing in Vasai) had messaged me and requested me to come back and take her or else Aaftab would kill her.”

The Delhi police on Tuesday took Poonawala to forested areas of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur the place he had allegedly dumped Walkar’s physique components after killing her. Walkar and Poonawala had been in a live-in relationship and so they shifted to Delhi after a mutual understanding to work collectively. Nonetheless, a motive behind the ugly homicide was not but identified.