mumbai the 28yearold food blogger who killed his 26yearold livein partner and cut the body into 35 pieces had once trained as a chef and was adept at cutting meat once aaftab amin poonawala had strangled shraddha walkar at their delhi flat in a fit of rage he used a meat cleaver on the body unfolding an elaborate plan to evade suspicion and cover his tracksread alsoshraddha murder case forget i am your daughter she had said left homethe statement of shraddha walkars father on the basis of which an fir was lodged in delhi reveals the tragic rollercoaster journey of a young woman who left her family for love and disappeared shes believed to have been murdered and her body chopped into pieces and disposed ofdelhi murder case choking her was easy disposing of body wasnt says aftab poonawalachoking his livein partner to death was easy getting rid of her body was less so an unfazed aaftab poonawala conceded to cops during questioning for the murder of shraddha walkar deciding that his best option was to get rid of the body in parts literally he searched the internet for help hisout every night at 2am he even fed the body parts to stray animals hoping to destroy evidencein a bid to stave off suspicion according to the police poonawala used to chat with shraddhas friends through her instagram account he had also paid her credit card bills till june to avoid suspicion said a sleuth he cleaned the refrigerator and room with chemicals to wipe out any stench he may have used formaldehyde to preserve the pieces said a cop0250delhis most grisly murder why aftab ameen poonawala killed shradha chopped body into 35 piecesthe police are ascertaining if poonawala was using shraddhas cellphone for a few months after the murder laxman nadar shraddhas childhood friend who tipped off her family has said in his statement to the police that he had last heard from walkar through an sms in june though she had been killed in maythe cops are still looking for the body parts and have found only about 14 of those which will be examined by forensic officials and sent for a dna matchboth poonawala and walkar were from vasai and had met on a dating app and moved in together to a rented apartment in naigaon in 2019 walkar worked for an itbased call centre in malad while poonawala took up graphic design assignments in march 2022 they shifted to delhi back from a vacation in north india shraddha went incommunicado in maywhile walkar was not in touch with her parents she lost her mother in january 2020 she would often reach out to her friends poonawala would however visit his parents homeit was nadar who got worried when he lost contact with her he informed the family in august that her cellphone had been switched off since july and she had not responded to his text messages on october 6 vikas submitted