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  • Shraddha Murder Case: Delhi police sought narcotics test for Aftab accused of slashing partner's body

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    Shraddha Murder Case: Delhi police sought narcotics test for Aftab accused of slashing partner's body
    Aftab, the man convicted of chopping his partner's body, is being under the Narco test sought by Delhi police...

    Digital Desk: Aftab Poonawala, who reportedly murdered his girlfriend and dismembered her body, will be subjected to a narco-analysis test, for which the Delhi Police have sought permission from a local court. 

    According to sources, he has been providing false information to the police and attempting to mislead the investigation. 

    According to sources, a court in south Delhi's Saket has taken the police's appeal to conduct the narco test on Aftab Poonawala and will issue an order soon.

    The police suspect he has been trying to mislead investigators by providing misleading information about what he did with his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar's phone. 

    During interrogation, Aftab Poonawala kept changing his responses, saying he dropped Shraddha Walkar's phone in Maharashtra and then saying he discarded it in Delhi.

    According to reports, a psychiatrist will also accompany the police team for the narcotics test. This test involves administering a substance that causes the person to undergo various phases of anaesthesia, which generates a hypnotic state in which the person is less inhibited and more likely to provide information that would normally not be divulged in the conscious state. 

    Police said he set up a trail of Instagram messages and bank payments to suggest she'd left on her own, but the imprint led back to him. 

    Initially, Aftab Poonawala was summoned for questioning on October 26 after Shraddha Walkar's father went to the police in Vasai, near Mumbai, last month.

    Police tracked the phone's activity, call history, and signal position after he told the police she had just taken her mobile phone, leaving her clothes and other possessions behind.

    Aaftab and Shraddha's friends' statements, medical and autopsy reports, technological analysis of data that Delhi police have been collected, and the results of the narcotics test will all be supported by this evidence, even though it cannot be used as evidence in court. 

    Aaftab purchased a 300-liter refrigerator, which he used to preserve Shraddha's body parts for about three weeks at his Mehrauli home in South Delhi before disposing of them over many days in various locations throughout the capital, according to police. 

    In order to find the precise locations where he is believed to have thrown his partner's body parts, Delhi Police took Aaftab to the Chhatarpur forest in south Delhi on Tuesday.

    Police officers are searching for Shraddha's head. Aaftab told the investigators that he had previously attempted to murder Shraddha but had changed his mind once she became upset and began crying. According to the authorities, Aaftab first disposed of Shraddha's liver and intestines.