Shraddha Walkar’s WhatsApp conversations and Instagram chats with friends and co-workers from two years ago show that she was once beaten so badly by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala – now charged with having killed her in Delhi – that she couldn’t even get off the bed and had to later be hospitalised, police sources today said. These chats are from when they lived together in their hometown Vasai near Mumbai, and reveal a pattern of abuse that ended up in murder in May this year.
‘I won’t be able to make it today because from all the beating yesterday my BP is low and my body hurts. I don’t have the energy to get off the bed,’ she wrote in the chat, attaching a photo of her face with injury marks. Screenshots of the conversations are now with Delhi Police.She told the friend she needed to ‘make sure he (Aftab) moves out today’ and refers to having spoken to his parents too, in the chat from November 24, 2020, which suggests that they’d probably broken up in between.
The friend asks her for her ‘husband’s name’, which suggests she’d told her office that they were married. ‘Don’t worry. We are all with you,’ the friend says in the chat, telling her that he could ask his mother and sister to help her too. In an Instagram chat with another friend, when Shraddha shared her a photo to show off a new hairstyle, the friend notices the injuries on her face. Shraddha says her nose got fractured because she fell off the stairs.
Over a week after this, she was in a private hospital in Vasai between December 3 and 6, records show. The doctor there has said that when she came to her there were no external injuries ‘but only internal injuries’. The hospital report listed ‘severe back pain, nausea, neck pain, difficulty in movement of neck, and tingling and numbness in lower limb’. She did not go there for a follow-up.
Rahul Rai, her friend, said he went with her to the police and the hospital after the beating. ‘He (Aftab) had attacked her two-three times. There was a deep mark on her neck, as if he had tried to strangle her. The police had persuaded Shraddha to go home, though she was terrified,’ claimed Mr Rai.
Her friends have now told the police that she routinely suffered domestic violence at Aftab’s hands.Rajat Shukla, her friend from college, told NDTV about her SOS months before she was killed. ‘She was physically abused. She told this to her best friend. Since we were a part of the same friend circle, we were informed about the same,’ Mr Shukla said.
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