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TopicShraddha Walkar

Topic: Shraddha Walkar

Aftab Poonawalla ground Shraddha’s bones to powder, say Delhi Police

Details from 6,600-page chargesheet filed in January reveals that Poonawalla shunted Walkar’s body parts from fridge to kitchen cabinets when visited by another girl.

Aftab was angry at Shraddha Walkar for meeting man on dating platform, says chargesheet

According to the 6,000-page chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police on Tuesday, this led to a fight between the couple and Poonawalla killed her in a ‘fit of rage.’

‘Love jihad’ season in Maharashtra — why Shinde-Fadnavis govt is raking up interfaith marriages

With deaths of Shraddha Walkar & Tunisha Sharma being termed cases of 'love jihad', state govt says its mulling a law against it. Critics say move is 'politically motivated'.

India’s police need to stop policing women’s choices

Similar to their colonial predecessors, Indian police are obsessed with policing defiant daughters – not defending their rights.

‘Riding the wave of hysteria’: Post-Shraddha case, here are 12 ‘gruesome’ murders that made news

Last month, Aftab Poonawala was arrested for murdering and dismembering Shraddha Walkar. Such murders aren’t new — it’s media that’s suddenly shone spotlight on them, say experts.

Jaw recovered is Shraddha’s, say cops, to be analysed to calculate exact time, cause of death

The Delhi Police will now prepare a questionnaire to be sent to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, AIIMS, where a postmortem of the DNA-matched bones will be conducted.

Bones recovered from Mehrauli jungle are of Shraddha Walkar, forensic report finds

The report, received Wednesday evening, confirmed that the mortal remains recovered from several locations in Delhi, are that of Shraddha, sources said.

Looking at ‘love jihad’ laws in other states, says Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis

‘Love jihad’ is a term some use to describe interfaith relationships or marriages involving a Hindu girl – allegedly with the aim to converting her.

Men wielding swords attack police van carrying Aftab Poonawalla in Delhi

Two of the alleged attackers claimed to be members of the Hindu Sena. An FIR has been registered at the Prashant Vihar Police Station in connection with the violence.

Delhi mother-son arrested for murder of husband — ‘chopped body, kept in fridge, scattered parts’

The victim Anjan Das was murdered in June in East Delhi, allegedly for continuing an extra marital affair.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.