Testimonies and pink flags raised by shut associates, colleagues and even neighbours of Shraddha Walker, captured within the Delhi Police chargesheet, reveal how she and her live-in companion Aaftab Poonawala usually fought “over petty issues”; how he would “beat her badly and bang her head against the wall”; and the way they “were in an unhealthy relationship”.
Based on the chargesheet, in 2021, Shraddha knowledgeable her faculty buddy that she had a struggle with Aaftab, who she feared would “kill her if she stayed even for one more night”.
“At this, (Shraddha’s) friend along with his friends went to visit her … she had injury marks on her nose, throat and head. Shraddha told him that Aaftab banged her head against the wall. They decided that Shraddha would not stay with Aaftab. They asked her to pack her bag but Aaftab again had a fight with her…Shraddha told her friend Aaftab would kill her if she went with him. Shraddha took her baggage and stayed at a hotel in Vasai for two days but she again decided to go with Aaftab,” it states.
Shraddha additionally despatched a letter to the native police in Maharashtra on November 23, 2020, stating that Aaftab “tried to kill me by suffocating me and he scares and blackmails me that he will kill me, cut me up in pieces and throw me away”. She wrote that this went on for six months, “but I don’t have the guts to go to the police because he would threaten to kill me”.
In March final yr, Shraddha informed her buddy that she and Aaftab had been happening a visit to North India to “improve their relationship”. “In the second week of May 2022, her friend received a call from Shraddha, who said she was having regular quarrels with Aaftab… She said that she would break up with Aaftab but after some time, he came to know from Shraddha that she was living with Aaftab in Delhi,” the chargesheet states.
Primarily based on the buddy’s assertion, police stated it was evident that Aaftab was incessantly violent with Shraddha and “their relationship was not healthy”.
Shraddha’s colleague and crew chief at her firm informed police that on November 23, 2020, she knowledgeable him on cell that Aaftab had crushed her so she wouldn’t be capable to come to workplace. “Shraddha also sent her photo on his WhatsApp and there were injury marks on her face, throat and cheek,” the colleague was quoted as saying.
Thereafter, he despatched one among his colleagues to Shraddha’s place and he or she knowledgeable him that she had filed a police grievance. She left the job in March 2021.
A person who met Shraddha and Aaftab throughout their tour to Kasol additionally spoke to the police. The chargesheet states: “While staying at his place, they used to fight verbally with each other aggressively and then used to go back to behaving normally with each other. He did not feel comfortable seeing these fights and finally told them to vacate the flat on April 13… He found that Aaftab was quite fluctuating, from being loud and angry to switching to being soft and convincing her to not leave him. She told him that she was leaving, but in the end they got back to normal behaviour.”
The couple’s neighbours additionally informed the police about quarrels and arguments between the 2.
One neighbour stated that when he was smoking in his lane, he noticed Aaftab “dragging Shraddha upstairs”. “The girl was trying to come downstairs but the boy was holding her hand. When Aaftab saw him in the lane, he dragged Shraddha inside his flat,” he informed police. The chargesheet states that it was clear Aaftab “tortured” and “tormented” Shraddha and he or she determined to interrupt up with him a number of instances however she couldn’t as a result of she had “no support system” and “she was largely banking on the accused or rather she was at no-return point”.
The chargesheet additional said that Shraddha used to stay “under constant fear” of being killed by Aaftab or being “beaten badly on petty issues”. “Aaftab used to beat her mercilessly and at times used to strangulate her almost to death,” it states.
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