Shraddha Walkar didn’t want to leave Mumbai, says beach cleanup activist

MUMBAI: A social activist with whom call centre employee Shraddha Walkar had participated in a beach clean-up drive has claimed the deceased suspected her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala cheated on her and appeared quiet and aloof during the cleanliness campaigns.

Walkar also had financial problems and she and Poonawala used to have frequent fights, said activist Shreha Dhargalkar who runs an NGO.

The activist also claimed Walkar wanted to have a family and a child. “That was her dream,” she added. Dhargalkar said Walkar did not want to leave her call centre job at Malad in Mumbai. However, Poonawala forced her or prevailed upon her to do so, she said.