Mumbai: Vikas Walkar, the daddy of Shraddha Walkar, who was allegedly murdered by her live-in companion Aaftab Amin Poonawalla in Delhi in 2022, died attributable to a cardiac arrest in Mumbai’s Vasai on Sunday, stated police.
The homicide of Shraddha Walkarcame to mild on November 8, 2022, when the Mumbai Police approached the Delhi Police saying that her father, Vikas Walkar, had filed a lacking grievance about his daughter.
The Shraddha Walkar homicide case had despatched shock waves throughout the nation with its gory particulars during which Poonawalla allegedly chopped her physique into at the least 35 items, saved them in a fridge for about three months, and dumped the physique components piece by piece in numerous components of south Delhi.
In keeping with officers from the Vasai police station, 59-year-old Vikas Walkar’s well being all of the sudden deteriorated, prompting his son to hurry him to a hospital within the early hours of Sunday, the place medical doctors declared him useless.
Speaking to HT a couple of months in the past, he had stated that he was nonetheless ready for his daughter’s ashes whereas asserting that he was decided to get justice for her.
He had opened a belief final yr within the title of his daughter, Shraddha Walkar Charitable Belief, to honour her reminiscence. The organisation focuses on ladies’s security and offers professional bono authorized support to underprivileged households searching for justice.
The Vasai police stated that they’re investigating the trigger and circumstances of his demise.
Poonawala, 30, and Walkar, 27 on the time of her demise, initially from Vasai in suburban Mumbai, have been in a relationship and had moved to Delhi in Could 2022. They moved in collectively in a flat in south Delhi’s Chhattarpur Pahadi space. Each units of oldsters have been against the match as a result of Poonawala is a Muslim and Walkar was a Hindu, in line with police and relations. The couple’s household stated they met someday in 2019 whereas working at a name centre in Vasai. However Delhi Police stated the 2 met on Bumble, a courting app, in early 2019.
The gory homicide got here to mild on November 8, 2022, when the Mumbai Police approached the Delhi Police saying that Shraddha Walkar’s father had filed a lacking grievance about his daughter.
Throughout their probe, Mumbai Police traced the couple’s final location to the Mehrauli police station space in Delhi. “We summoned Poonawala for investigation. Initially, he said Shraddha had left him after a fight, but later confessed to the crime. He also led us to the places where he had disposed of the body parts,” stated extra deputy commissioner of police (south), Ankit Chauhan.
Poonawala was arrested on November 12, 2022, and the Delhi police filed a 6,629-page cost sheet detailing the crime in January 2023.