Aaftab Poonawala was arrested last year for allegedly killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and disposing of her body after chopping it into several pieces. Poonawala allegedly murdered Walkar in May 2022. He then disposed of her body over the next several weeks. 

Her father filed a missing persons complaint in Mumbai in October after being informed that Walkar was not reachable on her phone. He alleged that Walkar was murdered, allegedly on May 18, by Poonawala in a rented flat they lived in at Chhattarpur.

The prosecution also placed on record the statement of a cab driver wherein it was stated that the accused had booked and boarded his cab and that when the said cab had entered Gurgaon the accused de-boarded along with his bag, in order to fetch liquor and came back and sat in the cab.

The order stated that the prosecution alleged that a bunch of hair was recovered at the instance of the accused from the same place where the accused had de-boarded the cab near a wine shop.