New Delhi/Mumbai, November 20
Delhi Police on Sunday recovered parts of a skull and some bones from a forest area and deployed teams to drain a pond in South Delhi’s Maidangarhi as it intensified its search for the remains of Shradha Walkar that were allegedly dumped by her live-partner after murdering her six months ago, sources said.
Police took accused Aaftab Poonawala to the flat where he and Walkar lived to gather more evidence. Also, the officials of Delhi Police and Rohini’s Forensic Science Laboratory held a meeting as they prepared to conduct a narco-analysis test through which they are hoping to get some vital clues from the accused.
“We have taken up the matter. Our teams of forensic experts had an elaborative discussion with the officials of Delhi Police regarding the narco analysis test to be conducted and are preparing for the same,” a senior official from Rohini’s Forensic Science Laboratory said.
In Maharashtra, a Delhi Police team called three persons known to Walkar in Palghar district to record their statements. Delhi Police team is in Manikpur in Palghar’s Vasai, which is the native place of the victim and where the couple had stayed before shifting to the national capital.
On Saturday, it had recorded statements of four persons in Palghar – two men from whom Walkar had sought assistance after she was assaulted by Poonawala in 2020, a former manager of the call centre in Mumbai where Walkar worked and her female friend.
According to the sources, police recovered fragments of skull and other body parts, mostly bones, on the third day of extensive searches in the forest areas of Mehrauli and Gurgaon in the Delhi-NCR region. These will be sent for forensic analysis.
Not far from Mehrauli, Delhi Police along with teams of MCD were involved in pumping out water from a pond since Sunday afternoon. The exercise began following Poonwala’s claim that he had thrown her head and some other remains in the water body.
