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Aftab Amin Poonawalla undergoing polygraph session

 



Mehrauli murder case: Accused Aftab Amin Poonawalla pending polygraph session underway at FSL Rohini

The remaining sessions of polygraph tests on Aftab Amin Poonawalla, accused of brutally killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, were underway at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini on Monday, officials said.

Poonawalla reached FSL at 9.50 am and the session started around 11 am.

Sanjeev Gupta, head of crime scene management department at FSL, Rohini, said, “When the last session was conducted, there was a health issue due to which some sessions were not satisfactory. Our laboratory and narco test preparations are complete. " Told.

"Whether Aftab is cooperating during the trial or not, we will tell the probe agency as it is a confidential matter," he added.

Poonawalla has already gone through three sessions of the test, also known as the lie-detector test, which lasted for about three hours on Friday.

Tihar Jail PRO Dheeraj Mathur said that Poonawalla is in Tihar Jail No. 4. When he arrived he was health checked and there was no problem, he said.

He has been kept in a separate cell and is under 24-hour CCTV surveillance.

Mathur said, “The jail superintendent has received orders from the court to produce Poonawala before FSL director Rohini on November 28, November 29 and December 5. Delhi Police's 3rd Battalion will present him before the FSL director.

Poonawalla allegedly strangulated Walker (27) and cut her body into 35 pieces, which he stored in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his Mehrauli residence in south Delhi, before dumping it across the city over several days. kept.

He was arrested on 12 November and sent to five days police custody, which was further extended for five days on 17 November.

On 22 November, he was sent to police custody for four more days. On November 26, the court sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.

Police have yet to find Walker's skull and some other body parts, as well as the weapon used to dismember his body.

Earlier, the Delhi Police, along with teams from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, drew water from a pond at Maidan Garhi in Chhatarpur area after Poonawalla claimed that he had thrown Walker's severed head and some other remains there.

They had seized five knives from Poonawalla's flat and sent them to FSL to ascertain whether they were used in the crime.

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