Shraddha Walkar was allegedly murdered by Aftab Poonawala at their rented flat in Delhi on May 18.

Mumbai/New Delhi:

Shraddha Walkar, who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend Aftab Poonawala in Delhi in May, had consulted a Mumbai-based physician final yr about her melancholy and Aftab’s violent behaviour, telling him she feared “he might harm her or himself or both of them”.

“She told me (over a phone call) about her depression, and the anger management and violence issues of her boyfriend,” Dr Pranav Kabra, who runs a multi-speciality hospital in suburban Malad, informed information company PTI.

On that February 2021 telephone name, “I told her we do not consult or diagnose first-time patients on the phone, but since there was Covid threat, she said she would not be able to visit,” Dr Kabra said.

“She told me her boyfriend Aftab got very violent even for minor reasons or small fights or misunderstandings, and she was worried that he might harm her or himself or both of them.” She also told him that her boyfriend was “behaving very weirdly of late” and was “always on the phone, chatting on WhatsApp”.

This ties into the timeline of the toxic relationship as, simply three months earlier than she referred to as the physician, she had informed pals a couple of particular assault. Her WhatsApp and Instagram chats from November 2020 present she was as soon as crushed so badly by Aftab that she could not get out of bed and needed to be hospitalised, police sources have mentioned. 

She’d additionally shared a photograph of her face with damage marks.

The chats are from after they lived collectively of their hometown Vasai close to Mumbai.

Shraddha’s pals have now mentioned she suspected he was dishonest on her — one of many causes for his or her frequent fights.

The physician additional mentioned, “I suggested she and her boyfriend do yoga and other deep breathing exercises and try to visit me as soon as possible. I also suggested she meet a counsellor and discuss the issue.” But she by no means met him, he added.

He mentioned that since she had informed him their names, when he noticed the information in regards to the homicide on TV earlier this month, he realised she was probably the identical individual.

“Unfortunately, it was too late,” he mentioned.

A WhatsApp chat she had together with her work supervisor three months earlier than that learn: “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 was in hospital from December 3 to 6, 2020, and went to cops, too, who’re learnt to have persuaded her to return house and settle it.

The couple apparently continued making an attempt to make the connection work, taking an extended vacation early this yr earlier than transferring to Delhi in May. Four days after they moved right into a flat in Mehrauli, they’d one other struggle — it started over family bills — and Aftab strangled her; reduce her physique into 35 items that he stored in a fridge and dumped over the following 18 days, police have mentioned.

He was arrested earlier this month after Shraddha’s father, who wasn’t in contact together with her since final yr as he didn’t approve of her inter-faith (Hindu-Muslim) relationship, went to the cops when her pals informed him she wasn’t in contact with them too for months.