Shraddha murder case update: Delhi Police record statement of victim's ex-manager

Mumbai (Maharashtra), November 20: The Delhi Police team, which is in Maharashtra's Vasai to investigate the horrific Shraddha Walker murder case, recorded the statement of the victim's former manager, Karan Behri, on Saturday.

The police team has been probing the horrific Shraddha Walker murder case in which her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala had strangulated Walker to death allegedly and chopped her body into 35 pieces, dumped it in the Chhatarpur area of the national capital.

According to sources, a senior Delhi Police officer interrogated key witnesses in the Shraddha case. Shraddha Walker's best friend Shivani Mhatre and Karan Behri, the former manager of the place where Shraddha used to work, both gave statements to Delhi Police.

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As per sources, the Delhi Police will also use Shivani Mhatre and Karan Behri's WhatsApp chats as evidence.

So far, the Delhi Police have taken statements from six people in this case, including Shraddha's close friend Laxman Nadar and Rahul Godwin, the owner of the flat where Shraddha and Aftab lived before moving to Delhi.

On Friday, a team of Delhi Police officers arrived in Vasai, Palghar district, Maharashtra, to investigate the case.

On the basis of Shraddha's father's complaint, Delhi Police solved a six-month-old blind murder case and arrested Aftab Amin Poonawalla last week.

Aftab and Shraddha met on a dating website and later moved in together in Chhatarpur at a rented apartment. On November 10, Delhi police received a complaint from Shraddha's father and filed an FIR.

Interrogation by Delhi Police revealed that Aftab Poonawala murdered Shraddha on May 18 and then started planning to dispose of her body.

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