PTI

New Delhi, November 17

Investigators probing the Mehrauli killing case are more likely to take assist from different police districts in Delhi and can take accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala to places like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to ascertain the sequence of occasions resulting in the brutal homicide of Shradha Walkar, sources mentioned on Thursday.

Police was granted custody of Poonawala for 5 extra days by a court docket right here.

After leaving Mumbai, Walkar and Poonawala had travelled to a number of places and police will go to these locations with Poonawala to determine whether or not one thing had occurred on these journeys to set off the homicide.

Police have additionally traced the rubbish van wherein Poonawala had disposed of his blood stained garments in addition to recovering an unpaid water invoice of Rs 300 and meals payments.

“We will talk to the owners and staffers of hotels where the couple had stayed in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and also make them identify Poonawala. We will also take him to the forest area to ascertain the routes taken by him while dumping the severed body parts,” a supply mentioned.

The supply mentioned Poonawala had misled the investigators concerning the route taken by him and he shall be taken again to the forest.

“We have recovered body parts from four locations in the forest area. He had used a saw to chop the body parts, which he had allegedly bought from a shop on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon road. We will also take him to that shop so that the shopkeeper can identify him,” the supply mentioned.

The police are approaching different police districts for sharing of details about any decomposed physique elements recovered of their districts within the final six months.

In June, a decomposed head and hand have been discovered from the bushes in Ramlila Ground close to Kalyanpuri space of east Delhi.

“The body parts were preserved. In absence of any missing complaint that could be related to those remains, the case was not solved. We will share the information and details with the south district police to see whether there is any link between the two cases,” mentioned an investigator of that case.

Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar and sawed her physique into 35 items which he stored in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli earlier than dumping them throughout town over a number of days previous midnight.

Poonawala and Walkar met one another by way of a web-based relationship app. Later, they began working for a similar name centre in Mumbai and fell in love.

But their households objected to the connection as they belong to totally different faiths, prompting the couple to maneuver to Mehrauli earlier this 12 months. Around mid-May, the couple had an argument over marriage, which escalated and Poonawala killed her.