The Haryana Police on Thursday found a suitcase with some body parts. According to the details, the suitcase was recovered from the forest area in Haryana's Faridabad and the body parts are suspected to be of 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar, who was murdered and chopped into 35 pieces by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala.
Faridabad Police have contacted the Delhi Police following the recovery of the suitcase with body parts in the Surajkund forest area.
According to police, the remains were wrapped in a plastic bag and a sack.
Some clothes and a belt were also recovered near the suitcase.
Prima facie, it appeared that a person was murdered elsewhere and a part of the body was dumped in the forest area to avoid identification, Faridabad Police said in a statement.
Faridabad police have shared the information with Delhi police, on the basis of which, a team of Mehrauli police investigating the horrific Shraddha murder case also reached the spot.
The body parts (including torso) found in the suitcase appear to be months old and it is not clear if they were of a man or woman, said sources.
They said that the body remains have been sent for post-mortem examination and things will become clear once the post-mortem report is received.
"Faridabad police officials have also said that they will keep samples aside, in case Delhi police would want to go for a DNA test," official sources said.
Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused in the macabre Shraddha Walkar murder case, is currently in police custody.
Aftab is accused of strangling Shraddha, his live-in partner, to death and chopping her body into 35 pieces.
He is also alleged to have preserved the chopped body parts in a refrigerator before dumping them in the forests of south Delhi's Chhatarpur.
Aftab and Shraddha met on a dating site and moved in together to a rented accommodation in Chhatarpur as the relationship grew.
On receipt of the complaint from Shraddha's father, Delhi Police registered an FIR on November 10 and arrested the accused later.
Subsequent interrogation of the accused revealed that Aftab killed Shraddha on May 18 after which he started researching ways to dispose of the body.
He also borrowed ideas on disposal from popular crime shows on his streaming devices, Delhi Police revealed. He also told police that he read up on human anatomy before chopping his girlfriend's body.
Police said after browsing on the internet for ways to remove all traces of his crime, Aftab mopped blood stains from the floor of the couple's Chhatarpur apartment with some chemicals and also disposed of all stained clothes.
He then shifted the body to the bathroom and bought a refrigerator where he hoarded the chopped body parts, police further informed.
(With inputs from ANI)
