Delhi Police seeks narco test for man who allegedly hacked partner’s body

Aftab Poonawalla allegedly killed his girlfriend and dismembered her body

New Delhi:

Aftab Poonawalla, who allegedly killed his girlfriend and dismembered her body, will undergo a narco-analysis test, for which the Delhi Police has sought permission from a local court.

Sources said that he is giving wrong information to the police and trying to mislead the investigation.

Sources said a court in south Delhi’s Saket has accepted the police’s request to conduct a narco test on Aftab Poonawalla and will pass its order soon.

Police suspect that he was trying to mislead investigators by giving false information about what he did with his girlfriend Shraddha Walker’s phone and saw that he used to mutilate the body in the gruesome murder.

During interrogation, Aftab Poonawalla kept changing his answers repeatedly that he threw Shraddha Walker’s mobile phone in Maharashtra and another time he said that he threw the phone in Delhi.

Sources said that a psychiatrist will also accompany the police team during the narco test. This test involves injecting a drug that causes the person to enter different stages of anesthesia, inducing a hypnotic phase that makes the person less inhibited and more likely to reveal information. , which usually does not appear in the conscious state.

Police said she had made up a trail of Instagram chats and bank payments to make it appear she had left on her own, but that trail went to her instead.

Firstly, after Shraddha Walker’s father went to the police in Vasai near Mumbai last month, Aftab Poonawalla was called for questioning on October 26. He told the police that he had left his rented flat in Chhatarpur in Delhi’s Mehrauli area in May following a quarrel. 22.

He had already killed her four days ago, it came to know later. It was barely two weeks after he moved to Delhi.

As he told police he only took his mobile phone – leaving behind clothes and other belongings – investigators tracked phone activity, call details and signal location.