The steady drip feed of news about Shraddha Walkar’s murder by Aftab Amin Poonawala, after initial shock and horror, is veering towards analysis. The question now is why he did what he did. Dr Sagar Mundada, psychiatrist at Healthspring in Mumbai, said that responses like, “he seemed normal” even “confident” are in sync with psychopathic personalities. Another city psychiatrist is of the view that “most criminals are psychopaths”.
 
Poonawala allegedly looked at Walkar’s head in the fridge every day and used dating apps after the killing. Dr Anil Kumar, who stitched the wound on his forearm right after he murdered Walkar on May 18, remembered him as “arrogant, hyper, aggressive and confident”. The overriding shock though is his “confidence and coolness” even after being caught.

Mental health professionals take a larger look at this man, who seemed urbane and urban as they try to get into the mind of a killer, who even now, as cops said, “ is remorseless; slept well in the lock up and ate fine, at least 3/4 chapatis.”