Aftab Poonawala Fridge Posting

About

Aftab Poonawala Fridge Posting, also spelled Aftab Poonawala Fridgeposting, refers to a Facebook page and series of memes discussing the murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner, Aftab Poonawala, in New Delhi, India in mid-November 2022. The fridgeposting memes typically revolve around Aftab's supposed proclivity towards fridges, since his victim was found in several pieces in his fridge following the discovery of the crime. Discussions around the Facebook group and other memes being shared about the incident, alongside the viral hashtag "#MeraAbdulAlagHai" (translated to "My Abdul Is Different"), revolve around the perceived insensitive or Islamaphobic nature of making memes about a recent murder.

Origin

On November 14th, 2022, news of a gory murder emerged out of New Delhi's Mehrauli neighborhood where a man named Aftab Poonawala was taken into custody for allegedly murdering his live-in partner Shradha Walkar. Poonawala reportedly strangled Walkar, cut her body into 35 pieces and stored them in his fridge before he slowly scattered her remains across a forest in his neighborhood.^[1]

As the news broke surrounding the crime, users on social media then began referencing it around the web. For example, Twitter^[2] user @zoo_bear posted a tweet discussing the murder on November 14th, gathering over 8,000 likes in two days (seen below).

Spread

Internet users soon began to discuss the murder en masse, with Aftab Poonawala's Facebook page being discovered and shared soon after the story spread. On November 14th, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @ThenNowForeve posted a compilation of screenshots taken from Poonawala's Facebook where people were trolling his photos and posts. The tweet gathered over 3,000 likes in two days (seen below)

FB replies 😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/qroqtcXH6i

— Ritik (@ThenNowForeve) November 14, 2022

On November 15th, Twitter^[4] user @lakshayhere then posted a photo posing next to his fridge alongside text that read, "Me & Who?" The post gathered over 6,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Also on November 15th, several Twitter users began discussing the existence of a Facebook group named "Aftab Poonawalla Fridge Posting,"^[5] where people shared memes about Poonawala and his use of a fridge for his alleged murder^[6][7] (examples from the page seen below). The images translate to "My relationship is sorted bro, my girl is a chiller" (seen below, left) and "This one is a good choice sir, it fits anything. Anything" (seen below, right).

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