Month on, police await forensic, DNA reports related to Shraddha murder case

It has been a month since the grisly murder of 27yearold Shraddha Walkar unfolded police are yet to receive the forensic and DNA reports related to the caseThe gory details about Walkars murder shook the entire nation last month after the Delhi Police arrested her livein partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala on November 12During interrogation Poonawala 28 confessed to killing Walkar and chopping her body parts into 35 pieces and disposing them of in various parts of the national capital police had saidFollowing his confession police scanned through various forest areas and even a pond in Madangir was emptied to look for Walkars missing body partsThough police have recovered more than 13 body parts suspected to be that of Walkar from forest areas of Mehrauli and Gurugram only a DNA analysis will ascertain that they belonged to the victimThe investigation is still on We are yet to receive the DNA and forensic reports related to the case a senior police officer said on MondayThe case which had the investigators on tenterhooks also gave fodder to gossip mills that were churning out various salacious stories with police denying them outrightlyAlso Read Shraddha Walkar murder case Inquiry ordered against Tulinj Manikpur policeThere was an outrage over the case with the lawyers protesting against Poonawala following which he was produced in the court through video conference Some fringe groups also tried to give it an angle of Love JihadWhile there were questions abound like what triggered Walkars killing and why did not she speak about the abuse being inflicted on her by Poonawala the answers were fewWalkars friends from Mumbai spoke about how she had been a victim of abuse ever since she started dating Poonawala in 2018 Despite taking the decision to leave him in the past she forgave him whenever he apologised her friends revealed to policeThe couple had met on a dating app and police have learnt that even after killing her Poonawalas profile on the app was active and was still chatting with several women The accused was also in relationship with a woman who was also quizzed by policeSeveral sessions of polygraph test were conducted on Poonawala which was followed by the narco analysis test held at Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital by experts of Forensic Science Laboratory FSL RohiniAccording to investigating officers the statements that Poonawala gave in his polygraph and narco analysis tests and during the police interrogation were the sameHowever a senior FSL official said Final reports of both polygraph and narco analysis test are still awaitedBesides police are yet to recover Walkars mobile phone which the accused allegedly threw somewhereCurrently Poonawala is lodged in Tihar Jail and has also been provided Paul Therouxs railway odyssey The Great Railway Bazaar following his requestThe court on November 26 sent him to judicial custody for 13 days On Friday it extended by 14 days the judicial custody of Poonawala till December 23Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar on May 18 and sawed her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhis Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several daysThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever