Shraddha Walker was an Indian woman who was brutally murdered by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala in 2022. Aftab reportedly strangled her and chopped her body into 35 pieces and dumped it in the forest area of Chhatarpur in Delhi.
Wiki/Biography
Shraddha Vikash Walker was born in 1995 in Vasai, Maharashtra (age 27; time of death).
Shraddha Walker childhood photos
In 2015, she pursued a mass media course at VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, Maharashtra, but dropped out in the final year.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′3″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Shraddha Walker was born into a Hindu family in Vasai, Maharashtra.
Parents and siblings
Her father’s name is Vikash Madan Walker and her brother’s name is Shreejay Walker. According to reports, Shraddha lost her mother Suman Madan Walker earlier.
Shraddha Walker’s childhood photo with her parents and younger brother Shreejay Walker (sitting on her lap)
religion
Shraddha Walker follows Hinduism.
caste
Shraddha Walker belongs to the Koli caste of Hinduism.
address
C-504, Sanskruti Apartments, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, near GG College, Vasaisi, Palghar District, Maharashtra
Profession
Customer Service Representative
Shraddha reportedly worked as a customer service representative from April 2017 to March 2018.
sales Manager
According to sources, Shraddha worked as a sales manager at a retail sports store in Dahisar, the northernmost neighborhood of Mumbai (2018-2020). However, Shraddha quit her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and appeared for her final exams for a mass media course.
team leader
After passing the BMM exam, she joined an IT company and was promoted from customer service representative to team leader.
Relationships/Affairs
Aftab Poonawalla
online love
According to reports, Shraddha Vikas Walker met Aftab Poonawala through dating app ‘Bumble’ in Mumbai in 2018 while she was working in an IT call center. According to sources, Aftab was a food blogger who was working as a graphic designer at the time. He met Shraddha online. Soon, the two fall in love and plan to be together.
Aftab and Shraddha
parental disapproval
According to some media reports, Aftab and Shraddha have been together for three years. According to reports, after facing objections from their parents, the couple moved to Delhi in March 2022 and started living in a rented house in Chhatarpur area of Mehrauli. Shraddha reportedly left home and told her parents that as an adult, she could make decisions in her own life.
violent relationship
Shraddha’s friend Rajat Shukla revealed in an interview that Shraddha once told her friends that Aftab often beat her and that she wanted to leave him but could not do so. Rajat Shukla mentioned that Shradhha told her friends that she was in a relationship with Aftab since 2018. Rajat Shukla said,
Today, news of her murder suddenly flashed on my phone. My friend was murdered and my soul was shaken. She told us in 2019 that she had been in a relationship since 2018. They live together. Initially, they lived happily, but then Shraddha started saying that Aftab had beaten her. She wanted to leave him, but she couldn’t. ”
die
Love to pieces
According to reports, Shraddha and Aftab often quarreled after moving to Delhi and Shraddha allegedly forced him to marry her. There are reports that the couple decided to start over with a trip to the mountains in March and April. On May 18, 2022, after allegedly being pressured by Shraddha to marry, Aftab strangled Shraddha to death and chopped her body into 35 pieces, which were kept in a 300-litre refrigerator in his rented apartment in Delhi. Eighteen days; at midnight, he disposed of Shraddha’s body fragments in rows inside and outside the city. Some sources claim that Shraddha and Aftab often argued over household items and daily expenses.
The refrigerator where Aftab cut Shraddha’s body into pieces
premeditated murder
According to some media reports, Aftab watched many crime movies and web series to carry out the murders. Aftab’s plan reportedly originated from the US crime network series “Dexter”, which follows the life of a man who commits crimes at night and solves crimes by day. According to Delhi Police sources, Aftab chopped up Shraddha’s body with a mini saw and threw her clothes into a garbage truck. To avoid suspicion, Aftab used Shraddha’s social media and paid her credit card bills until June 2022.
Tracking and arrest of Aftab Poonawala
According to reports, in September 2022, one of Shraddha’s friends told her father that she had not been in contact with his daughter for nearly 2.5 months, after which Shraddha’s father informed the Maharashtra state on October 12, 2022 A missing report was filed at Manickpur police station in Vasai; however, based on Shraddha’s last location, the case was transferred to Mehrauli police station in New Delhi.
Missing FIR filed by Shraddha’s father Vikash Madan Walkar
Her father suspects Aftab’s involvement in his daughter’s disappearance. According to sources, Aftab was summoned for questioning by the Mumbai police on November 3, 2022, and he stated that Shraddha left the house in May after a fight. Aftab was arrested on November 11, 2022, from his house in Chhatarpur under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of crime).
On November 14, 2022, the accused Aftab Poonawala and the Delhi Police were at the Mehrauli police station in New Delhi.
South Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police Ankit Chauhan told the media in an interview that Aftab admitted his crime and said that he disposed of Shraddha’s body in a forest area near Chhatarpur Enclave. Ankit Chauhan said,
The accused told us that he chopped her body into pieces and dumped it in a forest area near Chhatarpur enclave. He has been arrested and the investigation is ongoing. ”
Accused Aftab Poonawala was taken to forest area in Delhi’s Chhatarpur where he allegedly disposed of Shraddha’s body parts
On May 9, 2023, the Saket court in Delhi charged Aftab with murder in the Shraddha Walker murder case. Announcing the order, ASJ Manisha Khurana Kakkar said,
You murdered Shraddha Walkar on 18 May 2022 after 6:30 am, an offense punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Between May 18 and October 18, you knowingly cut her body into pieces with the intention of eliminating evidence and dumped her body in Chhatarpur and other places. Therefore, you have committed the crime of disappearance of evidence. ”
Facts/Trivia
- Her name is also spelled Shraddha Walkar.
- Shraddha Walker once smoked marijuana.
- According to sources, Shraddha’s relationship with her father was so strained as a teenager that she told friends and teachers in college that she had no father and was the only earner in the family.
- Accused Aftab reportedly wrapped the pieces of Shraddha’s body in black foil and threw them in a forest area without foil so that animals could eat it. He would also feed some scraps to stray animals himself.
- According to reports, Shraddha’s father Vikash Walker viewed the case from the perspective of “love jihad” and demanded death penalty for the accused. Vikas Walker said in an interview,
I suspect the love jihad angle. We demand the death penalty for Aftab. I believe the Delhi Police and investigation are moving in the right direction. Shraddha was very close to her uncle and rarely spoke to me. I have never been in contact with Aftab. I filed my first complaint in Vasai, Mumbai. ”
- Investigation revealed that Shraddha had complained to the police in Maharashtra’s Vasai Tiruni, saying she was worried that she would be cut into pieces by Aftab. She reportedly wrote a letter to complain to the police on November 23, 2020, after Aftab assaulted her in the apartment they shared. She wrote,
Today he tried to suffocate me, he scared me, blackmailed me, said he would kill me, cut me into pieces and throw me away. He had been beating me for six months but I didn’t have the courage to go to the police because he would threaten to kill me. “
Shraddha Walker’s letter to Vasai Tiruni Police, Maharashtra
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