It was in November 2020 that Shraddha Walkar first spoke to me about the physical assault she was facing from Aaftab Amin Poonawala, says her colleague Karan, adding that she was about to approach the police but things were sorted between the couple due to the intervention by Aaftab’s parents. Karan, who worked with Walker in Mumbai till March 2021, remembers her as a ”lively and energetic person”. His chats with Walkar about the assault are doing the rounds on social media. Talking to PTI in a Zoom interview, he says, ”On normal days, Shraddha used to jump around in office, but on some days when she had fights with Aaftab, she isolated herself so that she does not have to lie. I cannot imagine Aftab going to this extent…” Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar, 27, on May 18 and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight.
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