Tihar told to protect Aftab after threats
New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- A Delhi court has directed the Tihar Jail authorities to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Vikas Walkar in 2022, inside his prison cell, after he alleged that he had received death threats from fellow inmates.
Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi of Saket courts gave the directions after Poonawala, who had allegedly strangled Walkar in a fit of rage following an argument and purportedly chopped her body into pieces on May 18, 2022, told the court that he had been receiving threats from inmatesthat they would slash his face with "improvised weapons" and cause him bodily harm.
Poonawala, currently lodged in a special cell of Tihar Jail had stored Walkar's body parts in the fridge of his house in Chattarpur Pahari and purportedly disposed of them in a nearby forest over the span of several days.
The judge also asked the jail authorities to consider shifting Poonawala to a different ward or cell, if need be.
"The accused submits that for the past 10 days, few of the inmates have imparted death threats, to cause bodily harm to him that they will slash his face with improvised weapons, sua (needle)," the court said in its order passed on Monday.
Poonawala, the court said, disclosed the names of five such inmates in his submissions....
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