From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday adjourned the hearing in Shraddha Walker murder case to may 9, instead of pronouncing its order as promised in the last hearing on framing of charges against Aftab Amin Poonawala, who is accused of strangling his live-in partner to death and then chopping her body into pieces.
Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar, after having reserved the order on framing charges on April 15, had posted it to April 29 for its pronouncement.
Moreover, the Delhi Police were also scheduled to file its reply to Vikas Walkar’s (Shraddha’s father) application seeking the release of his late daughter’s remains to perform the last rites.
Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad had, during the last hearing, said the police will file a reply on the application on the next date of hearing. Arguments on charges were also completed last time.
The Delhi Police had earlier told the court that incriminating circumstances are clearly revealed through reliable and clinching evidence and they form a chain of events.
Poonawala has been booked for the offences under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC.
A chargesheet running over 6,000 pages was filed in the case.
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