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In May this year, 27-year-old Walker was allegedly murdered by Poonawalla in Delhi. (Picture: News18/File)
The information about Walker’s murder shook the entire nation after the Delhi Police arrested Poonawalla on November 12, who is currently in judicial custody.
Hair and bone samples sent by police for DNA mitochondrial profiling have been confirmed to be of Shraddha Walker, who was killed by her 28-year-old live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla, a senior official said here on Wednesday.
Police said bones and hair were recovered during searches from forest areas of Delhi NCR including Gurgaon and Mehrauli.
Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Sagar Preet Hooda said the bone and hair samples from which DNA could not be extracted were sent to the Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in Hyderabad for ‘DNA mitochondrial profiling’.
“On Wednesday, we got the result of the test. A piece of the deceased’s purported bone and a tuft of hair were matched to those of her father and brother, identifying the bone and hair as Shraddha Walker.
He said that the ashes will now be sent for post-mortem which will be done by the Medical Board at AIIMS.
Information about Walker’s murder shook the entire nation after the Delhi Police arrested Poonawalla on November 12, who is currently in judicial custody. After allegedly strangling Walker on May 18, Poonawalla cut her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge at his residence for about three weeks before disposing them across the city for several days.
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