Karan, a co-worker of Shraddha Walkar has reported that she had complained about the assault from her boyfriend and this matter even reached the cops. In another scenario, a doctor who treated her for acute shoulder and back pain reported that Aftab accompanied her to the hospital.

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“November 2020 was the first time I came to know of the domestic abuse. She used to call in sick often before that,” said Karan, her team manager when she worked at a call center near her hometown Vasai in Mumbai.

“In the chat over WhatsApp, I told her to send me a photo. I was very shattered and heartbroken to see how someone could manhandle her so badly. She had bruises under her right eye… also on her neck,” he told NDTV. ”

Later a friend whom I contacted to help her also told me she had burn marks on her stomach.”

Screenshots of their chat that has one viral show he offered to help her. He said he would be with his mom and sister and also would help her to approach the cops. He said he knew of Shraddha and Aftab as being married as she referred to him as her husband.

“After she went to the police, she gave a written complaint. But in the meantime, she spoke to Aftab and he told her he would do something to himself (if she left). She also went to his parent’s place and they told her he would move out of the house (that he and Shraddha had rented together) and that he will cut off all ties and never harass her. Only after that, she thought of not filing a police complaint,” Karan said.

“I was following up every week or two weeks to make sure she was safe, to make sure she was not going through the same thing again. We were under the impression that he was no longer with her,” he added.

“I don’t know how they got back together again later. I did not know she had moved to Delhi. When all this came in the news, I got to know,” he added.

When she left the job in March 2021, she told Karan she had gotten a new job at a content writing company that would give her travel opportunities. “I was very happy for her that she had all the time in the world to make her career. She was very young, just 23 or 24.

Some reports also suggest that the scenario was so bad that he burnt her with cigarettes and beat her up.

Currently, under the custody of the Delhi Police, Aftab has been under serious scrutiny.