In shocking revelations, Delhi police in its charge sheet has said that Aftab Poonawala was dating several women through an app and even brought one to his residence while the body parts of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar were still lying there. He used to keep shifting them between the refrigerator and kitchen cabinets during her visits. A city court on Tuesday took cognisance of the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police.

Quoting Aftab’s purported disclosure to police, the charge sheet reads: “I disposed of one thigh part in the jungles of Chattarpur Pahari… over the next 4 to 5 days, I cut the dead body into 17 pieces, three pieces of each hand, three pieces of each legs, head, torso, two pieces of pelvic and thumb.”

According to excerpts from the 6,629-page-long charge sheet, soon after the murder of Shraddha, the accused again came in contact with several girls through ‘Bumble', a dating app through which he came to know Shraddha. “He came in contact with one such girl… who is a psychologist and called (her)... to his flat. However, when she used to visit his flat, Aaftab used to clean the fridge and put the body parts of Shraddha on the upper shelf and at times on the lower shelf of the kitchen,” the charge sheet said.

Police alleged that Shraddha was “already living in constant fear of getting killed” even before the accused decided to get rid of her.

According to Aftab’s disclosure statement, he made physical relations with Shraddha for the first time on May 17, 2019. Shraddha's family, however, found a pregnancy test kit and raised objections to their relationship, following which Aftab took Shraddha to a rented accommodation in Mumbai in October 2019, the charge sheet said.

The couple's relationship soured when Shraddha found out that Aftab was talking to other women on Bumble, the charge sheet said. Aftab's motive was to get rid of Walkar as she fought with him and abused him, the charge sheet said.

During the interrogation, Aftab confessed that on the evening of May 18, he had strangulated Shraddha and subsequently bought a saw and cut her body into pieces to destroy the evidence, it said.

 It said, “On May 19, he bought a new fridge, stored the body pieces in the freezer and fridge and disposed of these body parts in the jungle area of Chhattarpur, Mehrauli, Delhi one by one as per his convenience.”

“After killing Shraddha, I closed the main door of the house at about 7.45 PM and went to a nearby hardware shop… and purchased a saw, three blades, a hammer and a plastic clip.

 "Thereafter, I came back to the flat and shifted the body of Shraddha in the bathroom and cut her hands…from the wrist… and kept them in a white polythene,” the charge sheet quoted Aftab's disclosure statement.

He added that “over the next four to five days, I cut the dead body in 17 pieces (three pieces of each hand (six pieces), three pieces of each leg (six pieces), head, torso, two pieces of pelvic, and thumb.”

The conduct of the accused in buying a saw, hammer, knives, chopper, trash bags, suitcase, refrigerator, eyebrow razor, articles for cleaning the washroom and others from the ‘Blinkit App', abnormal purchase of water bottles for the first three days and (purchase of ) dry ice is evident enough that the accused committed the murder on May 18 or thereafter and then purchased all those articles either to dispose of the dead body or to preserve the body parts from decomposing, the charge sheet said.

Aftab had earlier tried to mislead police by giving a false statement that after murdering Shraddha, he had burnt her body pieces and after grinding the bones with a stone grinder, blown or thrown away the powder, the charge sheet said.

“Shraddha was living with Aftab under constant fear of getting killed by Aftab or being beaten badly on petty issues and Poonawala used to beat her mercilessly and at times used to strangulate her almost to death. This is also clear that he tortured and tormented Shraddha and she decided to break up with the accused several times but she could not because she had no support system and she was largely banking on the accused or rather she was at no return point,” the charge sheet said.