Upon tracing, the location of the May 26 bank transaction turned out to be the Mehrauli police station area, which made police question Aftab that if Shraddha took her phone while leaving, and how can its location be traced to his flat? To this Aftab had no answer and confessed to his crime.
The accused confessed that he was a Muslim and justified his crime by saying that a man is allowed to marry four women according to his religion. He also forced the victim to convert her religion to Islam and stay together with his family which included his first wife and two children.
Sakir Mohammad, pretending to be Rajkumar, also claimed he was a widower himself and that's how he started to get close to the woman who was a widow herself.