Delhi, India, Shraddha Walker's body decapitated into 35 pieces by boyfriend, May 2022

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Chopped body in 35 pieces’, ‘ground intestines to keema’, ‘refrigerated the head’—these gory details of Shraddha Walker murder case has captured the nation’s attention.

It was on 18 May that 28-year-old Aftab Poonawalla allegedly strangled his live-in partner Shraddha. A day after, police said he bought a 300-litre fridge for Rs 19,000 to store the body and also use it generally.

Aftab was arrested by the Delhi Police on Saturday and reportedly confessed to the murder, saying he cut up his girlfriend in 35 pieces and disposed them of in Mehrauli jungle over a period of time. According to the police, 13 pieces — suspected to be of Shraddha’s — have been found so far.

These are facts. Now comes the details that grab the most eyeballs.

“Aftab used to slap Shraddha’s head, which he had kept in the fridge”, “he would often talk to the severed head”. There is always an audience for such details as most people have “voyeuristic tendencies”, according to Dr Nimesh Desai, consultant psychiatrist and former director at Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences.

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