Shraddha Walker’s father said that it was their relationship because of which she was not talked to.
New Delhi:
The father of Shraddha Walker, whose daughter was murdered by her live-in partner in Delhi in a move that shocked the nation, on Wednesday said he could barely bring himself to listen to Aftab Poonawalla’s confession .
“He confessed to me. The police asked him, ‘do you know him’? He said, ‘yes, he is Shraddha’s father’. Then once again, he started saying that Shraddha is no more. Didn’t hear. Then he was taken away. I was in no condition to hear it,” Vikas Walker told NDTV.
He said that when the police first told him what had happened to Shraddha, it was unbearable for him. “I was speechless. It was difficult to even hear the details. Going to his apartment was overwhelming. It was terrifying,” he said.
Mr Walker recalled how Aftab was “completely normal” when speaking to him on previous occasions, and how he became suspicious when the man shied away from any accountability for Shraddha’s disappearance.
“I asked him why didn’t you tell me earlier, since you are living together for 2.5 years. I am getting to know about it.” [that Shraddha is missing] From Friends. She reluctantly said, why should I inform you as we are not in a relationship anymore.”
“That’s when I began to suspect that something was wrong. I told the police that he was lying about everything. It was his responsibility that if he was in love with her and had been living with her for 2.5 years – To take care of her. How can he say it is not my responsibility to take care of her,” he said.
Mr Walker said it was Shraddha’s relationship with Aftab that caused them not to speak since mid-2021.
“I came to know about him in 2020. My immediate reaction was Shraddha, ‘I don’t like this match’. Don’t marry this boy. I want you to marry a boy from our community,” he said.
Walker said, “Whenever he came home, he behaved normally. If I had known earlier, I would have tried to get him out of this relationship…he should just be given the death penalty.”
Shraddha, 26, was strangled to death by Aftab, 28, in May after a dispute over infidelity and expenses, and her body cut into 35 pieces, kept in a refrigerator for 18 days before dumping them in the woods Had given. Police has said.
Details of the crime came to light earlier this week after police managed to unravel his web of lies and extract a confession, turning a missing persons case into a terrifying saga that has fueled domestic violence and relationship abuse. concentrated across the country.