Acting on this complaint, the police launched a search for Shraddha, which led them to the revelation that Aaftab had murdered her in May.

Aaftab was arrested on 11 November and sent to judicial custody three days later. As per police, Aaftab told them that he strangled Shraddha in a fit of rage on 18 May.

To dispose of her body, he looked up the Internet and took inspiration from a web-series named Dexter. He bought a 300-litre refrigerator and chopped Shraddhas body into 35 pieces using a butchers knife.

He stored the pieces in the refrigerator, using a chemical named formaldehyde to preserve them. Every night after midnight, he would go out and throw some pieces in the jungle or feed them to stray dogs. This is how he disposed of the entire body in the next 18 days.

To keep up the pretence that Shraddha was alive, he would chat with her friends through Instagram.

The complaint by Shraddhas father says that while her family lost all contact with her for her refusal to break up with Aaftab, they got information from a friend of Shraddha on 14 September that for the last two months, she had been unreachable through phone.

The father lodged a missing person complaint at Manikpur Police Station of Vasai (West) in Palghar district of Maharashtra, where he lives.

The police told him that they had communicated about Shraddhas disappearance to Mehrauli Police Station in New Delhi as their investigation had revealed that she was currently living with Aaftab in Mehrauli.

The complaint offers some insight into the behaviour of Aaftab with Shraddha: It says that Shraddha had confided in her mother in 2019 that Aaftab used to physically assault her.

At that time, Shraddhas father was living separately from his wife and children while Shraddha had begun living-in with Aaftab. The father and the mother advised Shraddha to break up with Aaftab. She paid no heed.

In 2020, Shraddhas mother passed away. After a month, Shraddha came to her fathers house, telling him that Aaftab had assaulted her again. While her father advised her to leave Aaftab, she got back with Aaftab after he apologised to her. This episode led to total collapse in communication between Shraddha and her father.

As per the complaint, Shraddhas father did not know that she had left Vasai and moved to New Delhi with Aaftab.

The Delhi police told the media on Monday that they had recovered 18 pieces of Shraddhas body. Aaftab killed Shraddha as she was pressuring him to marry her, the police told the media citing Aaftabs confession.

However, The Times of India has quoted an unnamed friend of Shraddha, saying that it was unlikely that she was pestering him for marriage.

Shraddha was from Koli caste of Hindus while Aaftab is from Khoja caste of Muslims. Their families live in Vasai (West). Both Shraddha and Aaftab left their graduation course mid-way.

Shraddha studied at a convent school and joined BBM course at Viva Institute of Technology, but dropped out in final year. Aaftab enrolled in a Bachelor of Management Studies at a Santacruz college, but left mid-way.

After leaving college, Shraddha began working at a call centre, where she allegedly met Aaftab. He and his brother Ahan ran an Instagram account by the name Hungry Chokro, where they published their work in food photography.

This case is yet another addition to a series of cases where Muslim men trap non-Muslim women in relationships for purposes of conversion or sexual exploitation, often murdering them if they resist.

Various religious groups affiliated to Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs and Hindus have termed this pattern of preying as love jihad.

Swarajyahasreported a large number of cases of a similar nature. Here is a brief list:

Ground Report: Hill TownIn Himachal Worried About Growing Radicalisation After Chilling Murder Of Hindu Girl

She Was Called Kaafir Ki Aulaad: Family Of Hindu Woman Who Committed Suicide A Year After Marrying Muslim Man Tells Court

Nepalese Man Living In India Using Fake Aadhaar Card Kills His Second Wife, A Hindu, Who Converted To Marry Him

Love Jihad Victim Shot Six Times After Her Wedding In Haryana, Continues To Battle For Life After Two Weeks

Sher Khan Killed Naina Kaur For Turning Him Down. So Which Family Left The House In Fear?

She Would Cry For Hours; Never Told Us Why. Two Years After Her Murder, Ekta Jaswals Family Has No Answers To HowSaqib Trapped Her

Before Killing Her, Tausif Kidnapped And Confined Nikita In HisHouse So She Would Become Unmarriageable

Hyderabad: Another SC Woman Killed By Muslim Boyfriend; Butchers Knife Used For Slitting Throat

Another Interfaith Love Ends Up InMurder: Shamshad Kills Priya And Her Daughter, Buries Bodies In Own House

My Daughter Fell Prey To Love Jihad, Say Parents Of Tribal Woman Found Dead Seven Months After She Eloped To Become A Mans Second Wife

Interfaith Love: Rachna, Who Eloped With Irfan And Accused Him Of Forcible Conversion, Is Dead

Five MonthsAfter Woman Was Found Murdered, Key Accused Surrenders; Hindu Outfits Were Demanding Arrest

Three Years Ago, Uma Eloped With Arif. Today, She Is Fighting For Her Life After Being Burnt By Him

-Hindu Woman Beheaded For Turning Down Stalker In UP; Accused Was Already In Relationship With Her Mother

-Minor Schoolgirl, A Hindu, Attacked With Blade By Stalker Danish Khan In Jhansi

-Protests Against Love Jihad In Rajasthan After Minor Girl Is Killed By Stalker She Met Through Instagram

-All Political Parties Visited Us, But We Got No Justice, Says Family, A Month After Their Daughter Was Allegedly Raped And Killed In UPs Lakhimpur

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