NEW DELHI: Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who is accused in the sensational Shraddha Walkar murder case, on Thursday submitted before a Delhi Court that he does not press his bail application and wants to withdraw it.
The present bail application has been moved ‘on account of communication gap’ between the accused and his lawyer, it was informed to the Additional Sessions Judge Vrinda Kumari of Saket Court in the city.
Then, the court recorded the separate statement by his counsel MS Khan about the withdrawal of the present regular bail application.
“The present regular bail application is, accordingly, dismissed as withdrawn and not pressed,” the court said in the order. Poonawala was produced through videoconferencing during the hearing. Last month, a police vehicle that was carrying him after the polygraph test at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini had come under attack by a sword-wielding group.
On December 9, the same court extended by 14 days the judicial custody of the accused. The 28-year-old Poonwala, is accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, a 27-year-old woman from Mumbai on May 18. According to police, he strangled her after a heated argument, chopped her body into 35 parts, wrapped them in plastic bags, and preserved them in a new 300-litre refrigerator at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area.
The accused allegedly disposed of those body parts within the next 18 days at different locations in a forest area in the city, leaving home past midnight to do so. The Delhi Police had claimed to have recovered the weapon that was used to commit the crime by the accused. He was arrested on November 12 and is currently lodged in Tihar Jail.