Aaftab Poonawala asked me not to go to police: Shraddha Walkar’s friend who alerted family
16 November
A college friend of Shraddha Walkar, who was the first to realise that she had stopped communicating with her close friends, took upon himself to trace her whereabouts. He started messaging and calling Aaftab Poonawala and all her close friends. He finally alerted her family about her disappearance, prompting them to approach the local police.
The friend, who lives near the area where Shraddha hailed from, works in an IT firm. He had met Shraddha in junior college where they became friends. After junior college, they met occasionally, but during the Covid lockdown the circle of four-five college friends got revived.