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The actions of the sword-wielding men who attacked Shraddha Walker murder accused Aftab Poonawala while he was in a Delhi Police van late on Monday were ‘not the Hindu army’, the group’s chief Vishnu Gupta said, although he admitted they could have been members.
Gupta said he heard about the attack ‘through police and media reports’ and asserted, “They may be members of our party but what they did was their own/personal action and not that of the Hindu Army.” The clarification came only after disturbing visuals shared by news agency ANI of two men – one with a saffron headband – brandished a sword and forced the van to stop.
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Aftab Poonawala, 28, is accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, 26, cutting her body into 35 pieces and then dumping it in forests in south Delhi’s Mehrauli and Chhatarpur areas as well as neighboring Gurgaon.
Poonawala – who is in Delhi Police’s extended custody while unraveling the details of the gruesome crime – was returning from a polygraph or lie detector test at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Delhi’s Rohini when the van he was in was attacked.
At least five policemen were guarding Poonawala at that time; One of them was seen in the video bravely confronting the assailants with a pistol in his hand.
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Two persons who were seen attacking the van have been detained, ANI reported.
The attack came hours after police said they believed some of the weapons used by Poonawalla to commit the heinous crime. Police also recovered a ring – which belonged to Walker – and which Poonawala had ‘gifted’ to a woman he met after killing his ex-girlfriend and storing her dismembered body in a fridge at their home.
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