Goan model alleges Delhi murder accused Aftab Poonawalla impregnated her friend, later forced her to abort

NEW DELHI: A Goan-origin model, Cherlyne Martins who had lived in Delhi for a few months and met and dated Aftab Poonawalla – the 27-year-old man who is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend Shraddha Walkar and chopping her body into 35 pieces, has alleged that Poonawalla impregnated her friend and then forced her to abort her pregnancy against her wishes.

Cherlyne Martins originally hails from North Goa and her parents worked abroad. She had earlier lived in Mumbai, but shifted based to Delhi, where she worked for a short while as an assistant to a well-known fashion designer who owns an equally famous fashion label.

According to Martins, who refused to name her female friend as, “she is happy and engaged to another man and likely to get married in the next few months”, Aftab was dating both of them – Martins and her friend without each other’s knowledge and even slept with both of them on several occasions.

“He knew how to lie and how to manage and handle women. He was a pro at getting women into bed,” Cherlyne explained, defending her decision to sleep with him.

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“My friend who is now getting married got pregnant as Aftab mostly had sex without protection with all his women. He liked it that way. As soon as Aftab got to know that she was pregnant, he insisted that she go in for a medical abortion to terminate the pregnancy. She did not know how to do it, so he got some pills and made her consume them. She was bleeding for a few days and was in great pain. She even asked me to take her to a doctor who gave her some painkillers and other pills. But then after about a week, everything was alright. They broke up after this incident, which my friend said left her deeply traumatized and mentally hurt,” Martins told this reporter.

She had earlier claimed that Shraddha Walkar was blackmailing Aftab and used to consume about Rs 300 to Rs 400 worth of weed everyday, which was paid for by Aftab, leading to big fights between the two of them.

She even posted on Twitter in defense of her ex-boyfriend and now murder accused Aftab Poonawalla:

According to Cherlyne, Shraddha is also to blame for the entire incident. “She should have walked out of the relationship and left Aftab in November 2020 itself, but she was enjoying the free weed that Aftab provided her. Media reports have claimed that Aftab was a drug addict, but the fact is that Walkar was also addicted to weed and needed her daily fix, but did not want to pay for it,” Cherlyne alleged.