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Shraddha Walkar Murder: Narco Test For Aaftab Poonawala, Lawyers Stage Protest To Demand Death Penalty

Around 100 advocates, practising at Saket district courts in New Delhi staged a demonstration around 3pm and shouted slogans demanding award of death penalty for the accused, Aaftab Poonawala, who is under police custody.

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Updated on: 17 November 2022 12:19 pm

Shraddha Walkar and Aaftab Poonawala

A Delhi court on Thursday permitted the city police to question Mehrauli killing accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala for five more days in its custody and also allowed his narco analysis test to be conducted to unravel the case. ?

Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla passed the order while allowing police plea in the matter.

100 lawyers come together to demand death penalty

Meanwhile, a section of lawyers on Thursday evening at a court premises here shouting slogans against Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused in the Mehrauli killing case.

Around 100 advocates, practising at Saket district courts in New Delhi, assembled around 3 pm when they came to know that the accused will be produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla. They shouted slogans demanding award of death penalty for Poonawala, who is under police custody.

One of the protesting lawyers, Surendra Kumar, said the protest was organised against the heinous crime of the accused. "We demand fair investigation in the matter. It should be decided expeditiously in a fast track court," he said.

Earlier during the day, the metropolitan magistrate permitted Delhi Police to produce the accused before him through video conferencing.

The gruesome killing

Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawala allegedly strangled Shradha Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight.

Police said the couple used to have frequent arguments over financial issues and it is suspected that there was also a fight between them that resulted in Poonawala killing 27-year-old Walkar on the evening of May 18.

(With inputs from PTI)?