Shraddha Walkar, who was recently brutally murdered by her partner Aftab Poonawala, had reportedly lodged a police complaint against him at the Tulinj police station on November 23, 2020, alleging that Aftab wanted to strangle her and cut her into pieces.

In her complaint to Tulinj police in Palghar two years ago, Shraddha had said, “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 [and] 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. His parents are aware that he beats me and that he tried to kill me.”

“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 had added in the letter. Aftab had informed a Delhi court on Tuesday that he had acted in the “heat of the moment” and that it was not “deliberate.”

Aftab was arrested earlier this month over the murder of his live-in partner Shraddha, who worked with him at a call canter in Mumbai. They started living together despite the girl’s parents’ objection. During an argument with her that happened on May 18, Aftab choked her to death and later chopped off her body into 35 pieces using a saw and continued disposing them for 18 days in different parts across the city.