Aaftab Poonawala is accused of killing his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar
New Delhi:
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Delhi Police and the prosecution would ensure “severe punishment” for the accused in the shortest possible time in the Shraddha Walkar murder case.
“I am following the whole case. I just want to tell the people of the country that whoever did this, through the law and through the courts, the Delhi Police and the prosecution will ensure punishment. severe punishment in the minimum time,” he said at the trial. Times Now Summit here.
Shah said there was no lack of coordination between Delhi and Mumbai police.
“But the letter has been published, Delhi Police have no role in it. At a police station in Maharashtra, Shraddha gave a letter that her body will be cut into pieces and received words death threat… No action was taken about it there…There will be an investigation into it there.At the time we didn’t have our government… Anyone responsible, strict action will be taken,” the interior minister said.
BJP Mumbai director Ashish Shelar on Wednesday questioned the alleged failure of Maharashtra Police to take strong action on the complaint of the call center employee who killed Walkar in November. 2020 in which she says her living partner Aaftab Poonawala tried to kill her.
Poonawala allegedly strangled his life partner Shraddha Walkar (27) and cut her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre refrigerator for almost three weeks at his residence in Mehrauli, south Delhi before while dumping bodies all over the city for a few days. Over midnight. He was arrested by the Delhi Police on November 19.
On the question of the need for anti-conversion laws in the country, Shah said such laws were introduced in states ruled by the BJP.
“In Gujarat, I can tell you in detail. We have it (anti-conversion law) and we are also implementing it strictly… Deciding (such laws) is decided by the state legislatures,” he said.
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