Shraddha murder case: Aaftab to be produced before sessions court on Feb 24

A magisterial court on Tuesday moved the Mehrauli murder case to a higher court for initiation of trial proceedings Accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala who allegedly strangled his livein partner Shraddha Walkar and chopped her body into pieces will be produced before the Sakets principal district and sessions judge on February 24Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla noted that the chargesheet was filed under sections 302 murder and 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender of the Indian Penal CodeScrutiny of documents is complete Section 302 of the IPC is exclusively triable by a sessions court Accordingly the accused be produced before the principal district and sessions judge on February 24 at 2 pm the magistrate said The case is now committed to the sessions court he addedEarlier in the day Poonawala was produced in the Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shuklas court and he requested he be allowed to carry a book of the Code of Criminal Procedure CrPC a notebook and a pen during the proceedings so that he could make notes and assist his advocateHe also requested the court to grant permission to carry a religious book to the court The magistrate directed Poonawala to file an application for this before the sessions court concerned During the proceedings the magistrate asked Poonawala if he has been given a physical copy of the chargesheet and if the pages were legible He replied in the affirmativeAdvocate M S Khan who is representing Poonawala informed the court that two applications were already filed in this court one for the accuseds educational certificates and stationery items such as notepad and pencil and the other for a proper soft copy of the chargesheetAlso read Shraddha murder case Aftab Poonawala moves pleas seeking supply of chargesheet footageKhan also said the footage related to the case provided to him in the pen drive were not in a sequence The footage where Shraddha Walkar is talking on the Practo App is in small parts of 1012 seconds duration each They are not in a series or sequence he saidThe investigating officer IO replied that the soft copy of the chargesheet provided to Khan was divided into various folders and also included various footage such as those from the Practo App crime scene photographs and pictures of the recoveries made during the investigationHe said that everything pertaining to the investigation was already provided to Khan in the same manner as received by the police Khan agreed that the pen drive provided to him consisted of two parts the chargesheet and the FIR foldersWhatever is available we will provide The idea is to provide the chargesheet to the accused the magistrate said He also asked Khan to coordinate with PoonawalaThe voluminous 6629page charge sheet was filed by the Delhi Police on January 24 and the court took its cognisance on February 7This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever