Mumbai: Call centre worker Shraddha Walkar had two years in the past complained to police in Maharashtra that her live-in associate Aaftab Poonawala, who’s accused of brutally murdering her, tried to kill her and she or he feared he would minimize her into items and throw her away, an official stated right here on Wednesday.

In the grievance letter dated November 23, 2020, Walkar additionally alleged that Poonawala used to beat her up and his mother and father had been conscious of it.

Poonawala (28) allegedly strangled his live-in associate Walkar and sawed her physique into 35 items which he stored in a 300-litre fridge for nearly three weeks at his residence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli space earlier than dumping them throughout town over a number of days previous midnight. The homicide occurred in May this yr.

Walkar was a local of Vasai city in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.

In her grievance to Tulinj police in Palghar in November 2020, Walkar alleged that, “Poonawala has been abusing me and beating me up.”

“Today he tied 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 anyway. It’s been six months he has been hitting me. But did I not have the guts to go to police because he would threaten to kill me,” Walkar stated within the grievance.

“His parents are aware that he beats me and that he tried to kill me,” she instructed the police.

Walkar additionally stated within the letter that Poonawala’s mother and father knew about them dwelling collectively they usually visited them on weekends.

“I lived with him till date as we were supposed to get married anytime soon and had the blessing of his family. Henceforth, I am not willing to live with him so any kind of physical damage should be considered coming from him as he has been blackmailing me to kill me or hurt me whenever he sees me anywhere,” she said within the letter.

On Tuesday, Poonawala underwent a polygraph check after a courtroom gave permission to the Delhi Police, whereas investigators discovered extra proof, together with blood stains within the flat the place each lived.

Poonawala instructed a Delhi courtroom on Tuesday that he acted within the “heat of the moment” and that it was not “deliberate”, in line with Abinash Kumar, the lawyer representing the accused.

Kumar later stated after talking to Poonawala that he “never confessed in the court that he killed Walkar”.

Sources stated a questionnaire was ready for the polygraph check in order that the sequence of occasions within the ugly killing could be ascertained.

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