The Delhi police’s ongoing probe into the murder of Shraddha Walkar continues to bring forth instances of alleged negligence and apathy of the Manikpur police in Vasai. Her cousin alleged that they had approached the Manikpur cops for a missing person complaint in August itself, but were turned away. The complaint was finally filed two months later, after the family sought the help of the higher authorities, the cousin said.
 
Walkar’s family members came to the Mehrauli police station on Monday and recorded their statement further. Speaking to mid-day in Delhi, a cousin of Walkar said, “We had gone to the Manikpur police station on August 15 with a missing person complaint, but we were turned away. A cop told us: ti parat yeil (she will return).”

“They filed a missing person complaint for Shraddha only after we approached the higher authorities [in the Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar Police],” he added. Walkar was killed allegedly by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala, at their rented flat in Mehrauli, Delhi. Poonawala claimed that he murdered her in heat of the moment, then chopped her body into dozens of pieces and stored them in a fridge. He dumped her remains over the next few months in the jungle of Mehrauli.