India, April 17 -- A Delhi court is set to decide on Thursday a plea seeking the release of property moved by the landlord of the house where 28-year-old Aftab Poonawalla allegedly murdered and dismembered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar three years ago.

In his application moved earlier this month before additional sessions judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar of the Saket court, the landlord pleaded that his property-a first-floor flat in Mehrauli's Chhattarpur Pahadi-ought to be handed back to him from police possession as the charge sheet in the case has been filed and trial is in the final stages. According to him, all the material evidence and photographs of the flat are already part of the case record.

The Delhi Police, however, oppos...