Guwahati: Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused of killing ‘live-in partner’ Shraddha Walker, is likely to hear the matter on Saturday i.e. today. Poonawalla was accused of strangling her ‘live-in partner’ Shraddha Walker to death and chopping her body parts.
Delhi Police will also have to file a reply in the court by tomorrow on the plea of Walkar’s father. Walkar’s father, in his plea, has requested that Shraddha’s body be handed over to the family so that shradh can be cremated as per culture and tradition.
Additional sessions judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar passed her order on April 15 after hearing the arguments. The probe agency had sought time on April 15 to respond to the plea of Walker’s father. On January 24, the Delhi Police had filed a 6,629-page charge sheet in the case.
Shraddha was allegedly strangled to death on May 18 last year. Walkar was allegedly murdered by Poonawalla in Delhi’s Mehrauli area. He kept Walkar’s body in at least 35 pieces and kept it in a 300-litre capacity freeze for nearly three weeks and then dumped it in different parts of Delhi.
Meanwhile, Shraddha’s father Vikas Madan Wakar has filed a petition in the court seeking a direction to hand over the body of the daughter so that cremation of the deceased can be done as per tradition and culture.
Delhi Police informed the additional sessions judge that a reply in this regard would be filed on April 29. Meanwhile, the arguments on Poonawalla’s counsel framing of charges were concluded on Saturday. During the hearing, Poonawalla’s counsel claimed that a case has been registered under the offence to be specified as per the provisions of the Criminal Code of Conduct (CRPC) as per the provisions of the Criminal Code of Conduct (CRPC).
Quoting the Supreme Court verdict, Poonawalla’s counsel argued that the accused cannot be held guilty of both the offences and the two ‘alternative charges’ cannot be clubbed together. Special public prosecutor Amit Prasad strongly refuted the arguments, saying that at present the case is at the stage of framing the charges and there is no bar in framing the allegations of both the offences.