When the police team finally located Faiz and arrived to arrest him, the female members of his family reportedly tried to create a ruckus, with the intention to prevent his arrest. The women and some neighbours even clashed with the police, due to which additional forces were called to control the situation.
On May 18, Aftab Amin Poonawala had murdered his live-in partner, Shraddha Walkar, and chopped her body into 35 pieces and disposed it of across Delhi.