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Mehrauli murder: Shraddha Walkar’s father moves court seeking audio-video evidence

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New Delhi: Shraddha Walkar’s father Vikas Walkar has moved a plea in Delhi’s Saket court in connection with the murder of his daughter by her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who allegedly strangled her to death and then chopped her body into 35 pieces.
Vikas Walkar has sought direction for a supply of audio-video evidence filed along with the charge sheet and hearing of the case in a time-bound manner.
He has also sought permission to attend the court hearing through video conferencing as he is a resident of Mumbai.
The court then directed the state to file a reply on the application and listed the matter for next hearing on March 31.
Shraddha Walkar’s father Vikas Walkar has moved a plea in Delhi’s Saket court in connection with the murder of his daughter by her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala,
Appearing for the police, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad had said that the chain of events leads to an irrefutable conclusion about the guilt of the accused.
Advocate Javed Hussain, the legal aid counsel for Poonawala, had sought time to respond to the arguments.
Prasad had earlier submitted that the accused is a trained chef from Taj Hotel and is aware of preserving flesh.

Poonawala had also ordered dry ice, incense after killing Shraddha Walker, the police had said.
After committing the crime, he got into a fresh relationship and gave a ring to his new girlfriend.
The court had on February 7 taken cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police against the accused which ran over 6,000 pages.
Poonawala has been accused of killing Shraddha Walkar and then chopping her body and storing the pieces in a refrigerator before disposing them of in the Chhatarpur forest area over a period of three months.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 25, 2023
Case should be heard in fast-track court, appeals Shraddha Walkar’s father

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New Delhi: In the interest of justice, the murder case of Shraddha Walkar should be heard in a time-bound manner in a fast-track court, her father said on Monday.
According to the chargesheet, Aaftab Amin Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Walkar on May 18 and sawed her body into several pieces, which he kept in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli. He then allegedly scattered the remains across Delhi, some of which have since been recovered.
“We request for the proceedings to be conducted in a time-bound manner in a fast-track court,” Walkar’s father Vikas Walkar said.
His counsel, Advocate Seema Kushwaha, said she would shortly move a petition in Delhi High Court for time-bound proceedings in a fast-track court.
Vikas, the complainant in the case, said he was unable to perform his daughter’s last rites because the recovered body parts were kept as evidence.
“In a few months, it will be an entire year of my daughter’s death. When will I get the remains to complete her last rites?” Vikas asked while speaking to reporters outside the court.
Referring to Monday’s proceedings during which an audio clip of Walkar was played in court, Kushwaha said Vikas started trembling because of the emotional turmoil stemming from hearing his daughter’s voice.
The prosecution, during the arguments on the charges, played an audio clip from the Practo App through which the couple had booked a session with a psychologist.

In the clip, Walkar could be heard saying, “…whenever I start ranting about my anger, if he is somewhere around, anywhere in Vasai (near Mumbai), anywhere around me in this city, he will find me, he will hunt me down, he will try to kill me, that’s the problem.
“I don’t know (how) many times he tried to kill me — this is not the first time he tried to kill me… The way he grabbed my neck, I blacked out. I was unable to breathe for 30 seconds… Thankfully I was able to defend myself by pulling his hair.”
Kushwaha said Vikas felt that his daughter was still alive on hearing his daughter’s voice in the recording.
She said before DNA profile matching confirmed that the recovered remains belonged to his daughter, Vikas had hoped against all odds that she was alive.
During its arguments in court, Delhi Police said there are “incriminating circumstances revealed through reliable and clinching evidence which form a chain of events”.
Poonawala has been booked under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code. fast-track court, appeals Shraddha Walkar’s father
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 20, 2023
PIL in SC seeks framing of rules for live-in relationships; mentions Shraddha Walkar’s killing

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New Delhi: A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to frame rules for registration of live-in relationships as it cited increase in crimes like rape and murder allegedly committed by live-in partners.
The plea, which referred to the recent killing of Shraddha Walkar allegedly by her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala, also sought framing of rules and guidelines for registration of such relationships.
The PIL said registration of live-in relationship would lead to accurate information being available to both the live-in partners about each other and also to the government about each of them regarding their marital status, their criminal history and other relevant details.
Besides the increase in crimes like rape and murder, the plea, filed by lawyer Mamta Rani, said there has been a “huge increase in the false rape cases being filed by the women wherein the women claims to be living in live-in relationships with the accused and it is always difficult for the courts to find out from the evidence whether the fact of living in live-in relationship is proved by the backing of evidence”.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 28, 2023