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How Can Someone Be So Cruel?

By Linus Garg
First publised on 2022-11-14 10:19:47

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.

A horrific and heartrending crime has come to light in Delhi. A live-in couple, Aftab Ameen Poonawala and Shraddha Walkar, who met on a dating site and had eloped from Mumbai after the girls' parents did not approve of their inter-faith relationship were living in a rented flat in the Chattarpur area of Delhi. Her father came to Delhi to look for her after he was informed by one of her friends that her phone was switched off for weeks and found that her flat was locked. He then approached the police and told them about her affair. The Delhi Police kept tabs on the live-in partner and arrested him.

The gory details which have emerged after the questioning beg the question: how can someone be so cruel? The man allegedly killed her in cold blood about 5 months ago after she insisted on getting married, cut her body into 35 pieces, brought a new fridge to store the pieces, lit aggarbatti (incense sticks) to ward off the foul smell and ventured out at 2am every morning to dispose the parts, which he carried in plastic bags, in the Mehrauli forest for 18 days. The police have recovered some body parts from the forest and they have been sent for forensic examination. The knife used to chop the body has not been found yet.

If it is true that the man killed the girl just because she insisted on getting married it shows how low the threshold for anger that leads a person to commit a heinous crime has fallen to. If the man was not ready for marriage, he could have opted out of the relationship by having a mature discussion. But in adopting the murder route to end the relationship, he ended a young life and permanently destroyed his own. Was he not bothered about the consequences of his crime? Did he seriously believe that no one will find out what he had done?

It is being reported that the police said that during questioning, Poonawala said he was 'inspired' by the American crime show 'Dexter'. Inspiration or not, one thing is sure, men like him deserve no mercy and he should be given the maximum punishment permitted under law after a fast track trial.