An undated picture of Shraddha Walker. file | Photo Credit: PTI
Call Center Employee Shraddha Walker Two years ago complained to the police in Maharashtra that he had a live-in partner Aftab PoonawallaThe man, who is accused of brutally murdering her, tried to kill her and was afraid that he would chop her into pieces and throw her away, an officer said in Mumbai on November 23.
In the complaint letter dated November 23, 2020, Walker also alleged that Poonawalla used to beat her and her parents were aware of it.
Poonawalla (28) allegedly strangulated his live-in partner, Walker, and cut her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre refrigerator for nearly three weeks at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area, and then dumped across town over the past several days. midnight. The murder took place in May this year.
Walker was a native of Vasai city in Palghar district of Maharashtra.
In his complaint to the Tulinj police in Palghar in November 2020, Walker alleged that, “Poonawalla is abusing me and beating me up.” “Today he is bound to kill me by suffocating me and he scares and blackmails me that he will kill me [and] Throw me to pieces It’s been six months he’s been hitting me. But did I not have the courage to go to the police as he used to threaten to kill me.
“His parents know that he beats me and he tried to kill me,” she told police.
Walker also said in the letter that Poonawalla’s parents were aware of his stay and used to visit him on weekends.
“I lived with him till date as we were about to get married any time soon and he had the blessings of his family. From now on, I am not ready to live with him, so the thought of any kind of physical harm as he is blackmailing me to kill or hurt me whenever he sees me anywhere, she said in the letter.
On 22 November, Poonawalla polygraph test After a court gave permission to the Delhi Police while investigators found more evidence including bloodstains at the flat where the two lived.
Poonawalla told a Delhi court on November 22 that he acted in the “heat of the moment” And according to Avinash Kumar, the lawyer representing the accused, it was not “deliberate”.
Mr Kumar later said after speaking to Poonawalla that he “never confessed in court that he had killed Walker”.
Sources said that a questionnaire was prepared for the polygraph test to trace the sequence of events of the gruesome murder.