Aaftab Poonawala moves court for bail in Shraddha Walkar murder case

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Even as Shraddha Walkar's father met the top cop in Maharashtra capital Mumbai, Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of strangling his live-in partner and chopping her body into pieces, moved a court in the national capital on Friday seeking bail, his lawyer said.

The hearing is likely to take place on Saturday before additional sessions judge Vrinda Kumari, PTI quoted the lawyer as saying.
As the initial investigation in the case is complete and the chargesheet is yet to be filed, there is no purpose in keeping the accused in judicial custody, the lawyer said.

On December 9, Poonawala's judicial custody was extended by 14 days.
Poonawala (28) allegedly chopped Walkar's body into 35 pieces and kept those in a 300-litre refrigerator for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi's Mehrauli, before dumping those across the city over several days.

Shraddha's father meets top cop
Father of Shraddha, Vikas Walkar, met Mumbai police commissioner Madhukar Pandey on Friday and said that he has filed a plea on his daughter's 2020 pending complaint.
"I wanted some information regarding the complaint filed by my daughter in 2020. So, I have filed a plea for the same. That might be useful for the case in the future. I have also complained about Aaftab's family to the police commissioner. Aftab's family had all the information and still did not say anything," ANI quoted him as saying.
With agency inputs