Shraddha Walkar’s knife was used to dismember her body

In the latest twist to the murder case of Shraddha Walkar, a news report said the police found five knives used by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala to chop her body into 35 pieces.

Aaftab told police that multiple weapons were used to dismember Shraddha's body. The police have recovered five large knives which have been sent to the forensics team for investigation, according to ANI sources.

Aaftab is also alleged to have preserved the chopped body parts in a refrigerator before dumping them in the forests of south Delhi's Chhatarpur.

ANI quoted Delhi Police sources as saying Poonawala is undergoing the Perceptual Ability Test PAT, a psychological analysis test. The process for the test on Aaftab is done at the Rohini Forensic Science Laboratory FSL Aaftab and Shraddha 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.

Aaftab murdered Shraddha on May 18 after he began looking at ways to dispose of the body, according to the subsequent interrogation of the accused. He also borrowed ideas on disposal from popular crime shows on his streaming devices, according to Delhi Police. He told police he read up on human anatomy before chopping his girlfriend's body.

Aaftab mopped blood stains from the floor of the couple's Chhatarpur apartment with some chemicals after a search on the internet for ways to remove all traces of his crime, and 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 said.

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