India, April 16 -- A Delhi court will on Thursday hear a petition moved by the landlord seeking order against Delhi Police for release of his house which witnessed the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by 28-year-old Aftab Poonawalla in May 2022.

In his application moved earlier this month before additional sessions judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar of the Saket court, the landlord has pleaded that his property - first floor flat in Mehrauli's Chattarpur Pahadi, should be handed back to him from police possession as the chargesheet in the case is 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, has opposed the plea, ...