Aftab Poonawala, who killed his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and chopped her body into pieces, was on Tuesday taken to various locations in Mehrauli forest areas where he claimed to have scattered the pieces. Delhi police are also checking if it was a pre-planned murder as “the couple had moved to the flat hardly three days before Walkar was killed,” said a police officer. mid-day has learnt that cops have written to the dating applications, which Poonawala used, to get the details of his account and ascertain if the women he had met up with are safe.

The forensic team of the Delhi police has not found any traces of blood from the flat, as Poonawala had cleaned the floor with disinfectant. A police officer said, “Initially, he was talking only in English, but now he has fallen in line and speaks in Hindi. He confessed to the crime saying ‘yes, I killed her’.”