Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that educated and progressive women like Shraddha Walkar should be careful about getting into relationships. Speaking to reporters Raut also said that despite her father's repeated objections to her getting into a relationship with Aftab, she refused t listen to him. He was speaking about the murder of a 27-year-old woman by her live-in partner in Delhi.
"I can see how enraged her (Shraddha's) father is. He told her multiple times to not be with that man (Aftab, the accused), but she did not listen to him. Educated women like her should be careful about who they get involved with," said Raut in Mumbai.
Further demanding that the accused Aftab Poonwala be hanged to death immediately, Raut said, "There is no mercy for people like him. He should be hanged to death publicly. The evidence is right in front of us. There is no need to wait for the legal system. We should take matters into our own hands," Raut said.
Claiming that many cases of women being ensnared by their lovers are coming forward, Raut said that the matter may or may not have anything to do with "Love Jihad", but cases like these need to stop.
Shraddha Walkar, a 27-year-old hailing from Mumbai, was murdered by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala in Delhi in May this year. After strangling the woman to death, Aftab chopped her body into 35 pieces and disposed of them at different locations in Delhi over the next few months. He also used a refrigerator to store the chopped parts until he managed to dispose them of in black garbage bags without being suspected.
The matter came to light months later when Shraddha's friends grew concerned seeing that she has gone missing. They informed her father-her only parent with whom she had drifted away-who then reached Delhi and lodged a police complaint after he could not trace her whereabouts. They also informed the police about Poonawala, with whom Shraddha was in an alleged toxic relationship for the past few years. The police are still trying to recover the disposed body parts in the forests of Mehrauli.
