<p>A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges of murder and disappearance of evidence against Aftab Poonawala who is accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar to death and chopping her body into pieces.</p>.<p>Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar said prima facie a case for offences under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) was made out against the accused.</p>.<p>Poonawala, however, denied the charges and demanded a trial. The matter has been posted for further proceedings on June 1.</p>.<p>The Delhi Police had filed a 6,629-page charge sheet in the case on January 24.</p>.<p>Walkar was allegedly strangled by Poonawala on May 18 last year, following which he sawed her body into pieces and kept them in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli.</p>.<p>He scattered the pieces at different places in the national capital to avoid getting caught.</p>
<p>A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges of murder and disappearance of evidence against Aftab Poonawala who is accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar to death and chopping her body into pieces.</p>.<p>Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar said prima facie a case for offences under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) was made out against the accused.</p>.<p>Poonawala, however, denied the charges and demanded a trial. The matter has been posted for further proceedings on June 1.</p>.<p>The Delhi Police had filed a 6,629-page charge sheet in the case on January 24.</p>.<p>Walkar was allegedly strangled by Poonawala on May 18 last year, following which he sawed her body into pieces and kept them in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli.</p>.<p>He scattered the pieces at different places in the national capital to avoid getting caught.</p>