"It’s been 6 months he has been hitting," Shraddha Walkar wrote in her 2020 complaint.
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(Trigger Warning: Descriptions of assault. Reader discretion advised.)
"Today, he tried 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 away," said Shraddha Walkar in a purported 2020 complaint letter to Vasai Police.
Karan, Shraddha's former team leader, who the victim had reached out to in 2020, confirmed the veracity of the letter to The Quint.
As Delhi Police continues to build an airtight case against Aaftab Poonawala, accused in the gruesome murder of Shraddha, a police complaint, allegedly written by the victim has surfaced.
The complaint states:
"It’s been 6 months he has been hitting me but I did not have the guts to go to the police because he would threaten to kill me. His parents are aware that he beats me and that he tried to kill me. They also know about we living together in (Vasai) east and they visit on weekends," she wrote.
Speaking to mediapersons, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that he also came across the letter and that its contents were "very serious."
Fadnavis also stated that the letter and what action was taken by the police will also be probed.
The purported police complaint brings the microscope on whether an investigation was carried out by the Vasai Police.
Here is what the rest of the complaint said:
Another statement accessed by The Quint, written by the police on 19 December 2020, states:
Speaking to The Quint, Shraddha's former team leader, Karan, said:
Since the alleged murder was committed nearly six months ago, the police are yet to recover key evidence such as the murder weapon, bloodstained clothes, and Shraddha's phone.
Apart from several state-wide searches for evidence, the Delhi Police is also going to conduct a polygraph and a narco-test on Poonawala to strengthen their investigation.
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