Aftab Poonawala is well trained in handling sharp knives, as he was a professional chef in Mumbai. To learn the tricks of dismembering a human body, he watched horrible videos online,” a senior Delhi cop told mid-day. Delhi police have arrested Poonawala for murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar at their Mehrauli flat where the Vasai residents were living after leaving Mumbai. Sources said he strangled her during a fight over marriage in May, chopped her body into dozens of pieces, which he then stored in a refrigerator. He dumped her body in a Chhatarpur forest over the next three months. It was her friend who convinced Walker’s estranged father to approach the Vasai police, whose probe led to his arrest this month.
 
Poonawala, 28, told the interrogators that it took him more than three months to dump her body parts around the jungles of Chhatarpur area of the national capital, sources in Delhi police told mid-day. He was a chef in a five-star hotel in Mumbai, before moving to Delhi, they added. A team of forensic scientists and Delhi cops has launched a massive search operation to find and piece together the body parts of Walkar.

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