The Delhi police, investigating the grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala, are scanning conversations she had with friends and colleagues on WhatsApp and other social media platforms. “I won’t be able to make it today because from all the beating yesterday I guess my BP is low and body hurts [sic],” she told a colleague on WhatsApp in November 2020. 

The conversation with her team leader Karan Bhakki on November 24 was from a month before she was admitted to Ozone hospital in Vasai for “back ache”.