Murdered woman Shraddha Walkar had volunteered for Mumbai beach cleanup, was quiet and aloof: Shreha Dhargalkar

MUMBAI: According to activist Shreha Dhargalkar, the victim of the Delhi murder case Shraddha Walkar was quiet and aloof but at the same time wanted to do something to clean up the garbage and filth in Mumbai.

“She was hardworking, but she did not mix with the others or talk to them much. She only spoke when she was spoken to or asked any questions. She was reserved and mostly kept to herself. She did not share anything about her family or personal life,” Shreha said, adding that Walkar was a simple woman.

Marathi film actor and theatre artiste Madhuri Sangita Patil said the 28-year-old Shraddha Walkar who was murdered by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawalla in Delhi and her body chopped into 35 pieces, had volunteered for a beach cleanup drive at Versova, Madh and Aksa beaches in suburban Mumbai, when she was working at a call centre at Malad.

Madhuri Sangita Patil, who herself recently met with a terrible accident while shooting at Madh, on seeing photographs of the murder victim splashed in the media, was shocked beyond words and felt numb for some time. “I just couldn’t believe what had happened or what I was reading,” she told this reporter.

“She had volunteered in one of my camps jointly organised with activist Shreha Dhargalkar for cleaning up Mumbai’s beaches. I have organized nearly 20 cleanup drives on a small scale in the last two years. Shraddha worked in two camps, but we did not interact much. She said she loved Mumbai and wanted to do something for the city, particularly to clean up the place,” Madhuri told this website.

The beach clean up drives in Mumbai were organised with help from NGOs and activist Shreha Dhargalkar and others, Madhuri said.

Madhuri Sangita Patil who is also an environmental activist had organized several small local-level beach cleaning drives and it was during one of these drives that the deceased had volunteered and participated,” she said.