saturday poonawala had told the police during investigation that he killed his livein partner after a quarrel over marriage and the idea of chopping her body into 35 pieces was inspired by dexter an american crime tv series he bought the fridge to preserve the body parts and used to step out past midnight to dispose them of the accused meticulously planned which ones to dispose of first depending upon which part starts decomposing at the earliest the police said according to police officials 13 body parts were found after the accused pinpointed the areas where he had thrown them but only after their forensic examination it can be confirmed if they belong to the victim they are yet to find the murder weapon after meeting through the online dating app poonawala and walkar later started working for the same call centre in mumbai and fell in love but their families objected to the relationship as they belong to different faiths prompting the couple to move to mehrauli earlier this year around midmay the couple had an argument over marriage which escalated and poonawala killed her ankit chauhan additional dcpi south district had said the accused then cut her body into over 35 pieces he bought a 300litre fridge to preserve the body parts and stocked up on incense sticks and room fresheners he disposed of the pieces in different parts of the city over several days he used to step out past midnight to dump the severed body parts he added chauhan said the woman was not on talking terms with her family due to their differences over her relationship with poonawala the complaint by the victims father alleged that poonawala used to beat walkar on several occasions and that she had informed her family about it earlier after receiving the complaint the mumbai police traced her last location to delhi and also called poonawala whose contradictory statements raised suspicion prompting them to rope in delhi police on november 8 mumbai police reported at mehrauli police station regarding the missing woman during the investigation a raid was conducted at poonawalas residence and he was detained poonawala has been remanded in fiveday police custodywith inputs from pti