Mehrauli murder: Delhi court extends Poonawala's judicial custody for 14 days

Delhi court on Tuesday (January 10) extended the judicial custody of Aftab Amin Poonawala, who was accused of killing his live-in partner, Shraddha Walkar (27) and dismembering her body. This was a case that rocked the nation.

Poonawala was produced before the metropolitan magistrate Aviral Shukla in the court lock up.

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The court extended his judicial custody for 14 days and directed the prison authorities to provide him with warm clothes.

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Earlier, on December 6, the court had extended Poonawala’s judicial custody by four days.

Poonawala allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, 27, and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his Mehrauli residence, before dumping them in a nearby forest area over a period of several days.

He was arrested on November 12.