Shraddha Walkar case: Delhi Police recover skull, bones from forest area

The Delhi Police on Sunday recovered parts of a skull and some bones from a forest area while investigating the Shraddha Walkar case, PTI reported.

Walkar’s live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla was arrested on November 12 after the police said that he confessed to killing her and chopping her body into several pieces.

He then threw the body parts at different places in Delhi over several days, the police said.

Unidentified sources told PTI that authorities found fragments of a skull and other body parts – mostly bones – during searches in forests of Delhi’s Mehrauli and Gurugram. It is, however, not clear whether the body parts are human remains.

The police on Sunday deployed teams to drain a pond in the Maidangarhi area after Poonawalla reportedly told officials that he threw the head and some other body parts there.

“We have heard that some body parts are dumped here and the search for them is underway,” Mahavir Pradhan, president of the local residents’ welfare organisation, said. “They are taking out the water from the pond.”

On Saturday, a Delhi Police team that is currently in the city of Vasai near Mumbai, recorded the statements of Walkar’s former workplace manager, Karan Behri, and three of her friends – Shivani Mhatre, Godwin Rodriguez and...

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