Shraddha Walkar homicide: Father denies beating his spouse, says not conscious of daughter consuming LSD
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NEW DELHI: The father of Shraddha Walkar Friday denied earlier than a Delhi court docket that he had overwhelmed his late spouse in entrance of his two kids and that he had a dialog together with his daughter in regards to the purpose for beating his spouse.
He additionally denied having any data about his daughter consuming LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), an artificial chemical based-drug categorised as a hallucinogen).
The sufferer’s father, Vikas Madan Walkar, was being cross-examined as a prosecution witness by accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala’s counsel earlier than Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar.
Poonawala is accused of strangling his live-in companion Shraddha Walkar on May 18 final 12 months and hacking her physique into items.
Defence counsel Akshay Bhandari was cross-examining Vikas Walkar on the premise on a video recording of his daughter and Poonawala speaking to a psychologist.
The whole video recording has not but been performed within the court docket.
“Did you beat your wife in front of children when they were young? Are you aware that your daughter used to consume LSD? Is it within your knowledge that Shraddha had told the counsellor that you used to beat your wife, and therefore, she was disturbed?” the defence counsel requested.
Vikal Walkar replied in unfavourable to all of the questions.
To the query “Did Shraddha ever talk to you as to why you used to beat your wife?” Walkar stated, “I never spoke to my daughter about this.”
Special Public Prosecutor Madhukar Pandey objected to the query, saying, “It was suggestive in nature as it contained an innuendo.”
A query posed by Bhandari about Shraddha failing in Class 7 as a consequence of “bad atmosphere at home” was disallowed by the court docket on the bottom that the daddy couldn’t be confronted with a recording of which he was not an element.
Bhandari then reframed the query as, “Is it within your knowledge that your daughter failed in Class 7 as there was a bad atmosphere at home as you used to beat your wife?” To this, Vikas Walkar stated, “My daughter had not failed in the class.” He stated Sharddha had obtained much less marks in one of many topics.
The defence counsel additionally requested the daddy whether or not he was conscious that his daughter had a “hallucination problem,” to which he replied within the unfavourable.
The matter has been posted for Monday for the remaining cross-examination.
Meanwhile, the cross-examination of the sufferer’s brother, Shreejay Vikas Walkar, was accomplished on Friday.
The defence counsel had on Thursday performed an audio recording of a dialog involving the accused, the sufferer, and a psychologist booked on Practo App within the court docket to controvert the prosecution’s case on some points.
The counsel for the accused needed to drive dwelling a number of factors, considered one of which argues that it was the sufferer who used to get “irritated” with Poonawala.
On sure points referring to the audio recordings, the court docket agreed that they pertained to data.
The court docket’s validation got here after Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad raised objections to the questions.
After allegedly strangling Sharddha Walkar, Poonawala sawed her physique into items and saved them in a fridge for nearly three weeks at his rented home in south Delhi’s Mehrauli.
He later threw the items at completely different locations within the nationwide capital to keep away from getting caught.
NEW DELHI: The father of Shraddha Walkar Friday denied earlier than a Delhi court docket that he had overwhelmed his late spouse in entrance of his two kids and that he had a dialog together with his daughter in regards to the purpose for beating his spouse.
He additionally denied having any data about his daughter consuming LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), an artificial chemical based-drug categorised as a hallucinogen).
The sufferer’s father, Vikas Madan Walkar, was being cross-examined as a prosecution witness by accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala’s counsel earlier than Additional Sessions Judge Manisha Khurana Kakkar.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Poonawala is accused of strangling his live-in companion Shraddha Walkar on May 18 final 12 months and hacking her physique into items.
Defence counsel Akshay Bhandari was cross-examining Vikas Walkar on the premise on a video recording of his daughter and Poonawala speaking to a psychologist.
The whole video recording has not but been performed within the court docket.
“Did you beat your wife in front of children when they were young? Are you aware that your daughter used to consume LSD? Is it within your knowledge that Shraddha had told the counsellor that you used to beat your wife, and therefore, she was disturbed?” the defence counsel requested.
Vikal Walkar replied in unfavourable to all of the questions.
To the query “Did Shraddha ever talk to you as to why you used to beat your wife?” Walkar stated, “I never spoke to my daughter about this.”
Special Public Prosecutor Madhukar Pandey objected to the query, saying, “It was suggestive in nature as it contained an innuendo.”
A query posed by Bhandari about Shraddha failing in Class 7 as a consequence of “bad atmosphere at home” was disallowed by the court docket on the bottom that the daddy couldn’t be confronted with a recording of which he was not an element.
Bhandari then reframed the query as, “Is it within your knowledge that your daughter failed in Class 7 as there was a bad atmosphere at home as you used to beat your wife?” To this, Vikas Walkar stated, “My daughter had not failed in the class.” He stated Sharddha had obtained much less marks in one of many topics.
The defence counsel additionally requested the daddy whether or not he was conscious that his daughter had a “hallucination problem,” to which he replied within the unfavourable.
The matter has been posted for Monday for the remaining cross-examination.
Meanwhile, the cross-examination of the sufferer’s brother, Shreejay Vikas Walkar, was accomplished on Friday.
The defence counsel had on Thursday performed an audio recording of a dialog involving the accused, the sufferer, and a psychologist booked on Practo App within the court docket to controvert the prosecution’s case on some points.
The counsel for the accused needed to drive dwelling a number of factors, considered one of which argues that it was the sufferer who used to get “irritated” with Poonawala.
On sure points referring to the audio recordings, the court docket agreed that they pertained to data.
The court docket’s validation got here after Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad raised objections to the questions.
After allegedly strangling Sharddha Walkar, Poonawala sawed her physique into items and saved them in a fridge for nearly three weeks at his rented home in south Delhi’s Mehrauli.
He later threw the items at completely different locations within the nationwide capital to keep away from getting caught.
