The Delhi police have said that the Google search history of Aftab Poonawala gave him away. According to sources at Mehrauli police station in the national capital, the 28-year-old had searched ways to dispose of a body. On being informed by their Manikpur (Vasai) counterpart on November 9 that Poonawala’s live-in partner Shraddha Walkar was missing, the Mehrauli police filed a case of kidnapping. “As Poonawala was the prime suspect, according to the father, we detained him from his house on November 10,” a senior officer of Delhi police said.

The officer said that when Poonawala at the police station, “was so calm and composed that cops didn’t suspect anything wrong on his part”. As Walkar’s father was also at the police station, he was confronted over the allegations of harassment and beating. “He said that there used to be fights between them, but he was not aware of her whereabouts since she left him in May,” he added.