Mehrauli murder: Shraddha warned Maharashtra police in 2020 that Aftab would mutilate and kill her

On November 22, Aftab Poonawala testified in a Delhi court that his actions were spur of the moment and not “planned.”

An official in Mumbai stated on November 23 that call centre worker Shraddha Walkar had complained to police in Maharashtra two years prior that her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala, who is accused of brutally murdering her, had tried to kill her and that she feared he would cut her into pieces and throw her away.

Walkar also said that Poonawala used to beat her up and his parents were aware of it in the complaint letter dated November 23, 2020.

Poonawala (age 28) is accused of killing Walkar, his live-in partner, by strangling her and sawing her body into 35 pieces, which he allegedly kept in a 300-liter refrigerator at his home in the Mehrauli neighbourhood of South Delhi for almost three weeks before disposing of them over several days after midnight. This year’s murder took place in May.

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Walkar was a native of the Vasai town in the Palghar district of Maharashtra.

In November 2020, Walkar complained to the Tulinj police in Palghar, saying that “Poonawala has been assaulting me and beating me up.” He threatened to suffocate me today and blackmails me into believing he will kill me, chop me up, and discard me anyway. He has been hitting me for the past six months. He would threaten to kill me, but I lacked the guts to call the police,” Walkar claimed in the complaint.

She informed the police, “His parents are aware that he hits me and that he tried to murder me.

Additionally, Walkar said in the letter that Poonawala’s parents were aware of their cohabitation and frequently visited them.

“I have been living with him since we were planning to get married shortly with the approval of his family. As he has been threatening to kill me or hurt me everytime he sees me anyplace, I am no longer willing to live with him, thus any physical harm should be taken as coming from him, she wrote in the letter.

After a court granted the Delhi Police permission, Poonawala conducted a polygraph test on November 22 while detectives discovered additional evidence, including blood stains in the apartment where they both resided.

According to Abinash Kumar, the attorney for the accused, Poonawala stated to a Delhi court on November 22 that he behaved in the “heat of the moment” and that it was not “planned.”

After meeting with Poonawala, Mr. Kumar later claimed that he “never confessed in court that he killed Walkar.”

According to sources, a questionnaire was created for the polygraph exam in order to determine the chronology of the horrifying murder.