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Wellington’s missing pregnant woman, Sonam Shelar, 26, was last seen alive at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 17, 2018, on Cashmere Avenue in Khandallah.
Sonam Shelar, the five-month pregnant Wellington woman whose body was found on a remote Wairarapa beach in 2018, drowned, according to a forensic report.
Shelar, who had lived in New Zealand with her husband for seven months, was suspected of committing suicide.
Now a forensic report released to Things finds the 26-year-old drowned in a rough sea.
But how or why he got into the water when he couldn’t swim remains a mystery.
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Coroner Tracey Fitzgibbon described her final moments between her Khandallah flat and Island Bay.
On November 17, 2018, Sagar Shelar reported that his wife, Sonam, was missing.
He saw her alive for the last time at 8.30 am. She was lying on his bed looking at his phone when he left for work that morning.
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Sonam Shelar, whose body was found on a Wairarapa beach, and her husband Sagar Shelar.
Surveillance footage shows that he took the bus to Island Bay at 10.13 am and was walking towards the beach at 10.51 am. The couple, who had been married for almost a year, had visited the beach at an earlier time. Sonam liked the ocean, her husband said.
But a stranger would remember seeing her cry on the beach the day she disappeared. She walked around him when he tried to ask her what was wrong with her.
Sagar called his wife that morning while at work, and was concerned when she didn’t answer. Phone records confirm that he went home at lunch to see how he was doing. At 2.30 in the afternoon he had gone to the police station and then filed a missing person report.
He told police that his wife was pregnant. She was hoping to have a boy and cried when the ultrasound revealed she was having a girl.
Interviews with his landlord and roommates show a couple who seemed happy enough.
Owner Keith Scott said the couple laughed at times, but not “their usual newlywed happiness.”
They met on the online dating site BharatMatrimony.com in October 2017.
Her roommate, Tim Highsted-Jones, said Sonam was always on her phone at home.
“He didn’t think she ever left the house,” Fitzgibbon said.
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Sonam Shelar was last seen on the beach at Island Bay.
Her family in India described her as a modern “strong minded girl” who had worked as a physical trainer.
By November 21, police found one of her cell phones on the lost property at the Wellington Police Station. His second phone had been handed over to Vodafone. Both had been found in water one meter deep.
His family in India suspected there might be a crime involved, but police found there was no evidence that it was murder.
“Investigations into Ms. Shelar’s personal relationships have not established any circumstance that would lead the police to believe that there were criminal actions involved in her death,” Fitzgibbon wrote.
The coroner was not satisfied that his actions were self-inflicted or amounted to suicide.
“Ms. Shelar left no suicide notes and gave no indication that she wanted to end her own life. Consequently, his intentions at that time cannot be established. “
