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The Wire's Yaqut Ali explains how the police investigation led to the arrest of the accused, nearly six months after she was murdered on May 18.
Students from the Gurukul Art School pay tribute to Shraddha Walker, who was murdered by her boyfriend Aftab Ameen Poonawala in Delhi, in Mumbai, November 15, 2022. Photo: PTI/Shashank Parade
Students from the Gurukul Art School pay tribute to Shraddha Walker, who was murdered by her boyfriend Aftab Ameen Poonawala in Delhi, in Mumbai, November 15, 2022. Photo: PTI/Shashank Parade
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As details of the gory murder of 26-year-old Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla, 28, emerge, the killing in Delhi’s Mehrauli has received widespread attention from civil society and media. The Wire‘s Yaqut Ali explains how the police investigation led to the arrest of the accused, nearly six months after she was murdered on May 18.

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