“Hindu girls are timid and self-conscious”: Aftab told a woman he dated while living with Shradha Walkar

NEW DELHI: While it is very clear from the investigation of the Delhi police that Aftab Amin Poonwala accused of killing his live-in girlfriend and cutting her up into 35 pieces, had only dated or had sex with Hindu women, a Christian woman of Goan origin Cherlyne Martins, has alleged that Aftab trapped her into a relationship by offering her work and had sex with her on a few occasions.

He also claimed that he was single and did not have a girl friend when he met me, but “now I have come to know from media reports that all the while he was living-in with Shraddha Walkar”, Martins told this website.

According to Martins, she had introduced her friend (name withheld on request), a woman who was also in need of work to Aftab and behind her back he contacted her friend and even trapped her into a relationship. Martins did not disclose the name of her friend “as she is engaged to someone else and could be getting married in the next few months” but said that Aftab had sex with her ‘friend’ without her knowledge by lying and cheating on both of them.

“Aftab once told me Hindu girls are timid and self-conscious in bed, when I asked him why wasn’t he dating or seeing Muslim women as he himself was a Muslim. He liked Hindu girls because they are submissive and did not ask too many questions,” he told Martins.

“He also said he was on some mission, but I did not ask him any further questions on that topic as he seemed to get worked up and angry when discussing his sex life or the women in his life,” Martins told this website.

Meanwhile, according to a PTI report, on Thursday morning Poonawalla underwent a narco analysis test at a Rohini hospital in Delhi as part of the ongoing police investigation.

According to officials, Poonawala reached the Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini at 8.40 am and the narco test started at around 10 am.

Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), Delhi police, Sagar Preet Hooda said the process of NARCO test of the accused Aaftab had started Thursday morning. Before undergoing narco analysis test, a general check up was done to check his blood pressure, plus rate, body temperature and heart beat, a senior official said.

A consent form with complete details of Poonawala and the team conducting his narco test was read out to him as part of the procedure. After he signed the form, the narco analysis procedure was started, the official said.

Narco analysis involves intravenous administration of a drug (such as sodium pentothal, scopolamine, and sodium amytal) that causes the person undergoing it to enter into various stages of anaesthesia.

In the hypnotic stage, the person becomes less inhibited and is more likely to divulge information, which would usually not be revealed in the conscious state.

Investigating agencies use this test after other pieces of evidence do not provide a clear picture of the case.

The Delhi Police had earlier said it sought Poonawalla’s narco analysis test as his responses during interrogation were ”deceptive” in nature.

The Supreme Court has ruled that narco-analysis, brain mapping, and polygraph tests cannot be conducted on any person without his or her consent.

Also, statements made during this test are not admissible as primary evidence in the court, except under certain circumstances when the bench thinks that the facts and nature of the case permit it.

Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawalla allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days.

He was arrested on November 12 and sent to five-day police custody, which was further extended by five days on November 17. The court on November 26 sent him to judicial custody for 13 days.

(with inputs from PTI)