Mumbai: The quantum of sentence in the Pallavi Purkayastha murder case will be announced by a Mumbai court on Thursday. Sajjad Mughal, the security guard of the building where Pallavi stayed, has been found guilty of all charges, including murder, molestation and trespassing.
The prosecution has asked for death penalty on the grounds that the act was premeditated and that the crime falls under the rarest of rare category. Prosecution has cited Pallavi's post-mortem report as an example, which shows that she suffered 16 external injuries stating that the convict exercised maximum cruelty while killing her.
25-year-old lawyer Pallavi Purkhayastha's brutal murder at her Wadala apartment on August 9, 2012, had left Mumbai shocked. She was killed by Sajjad Ahmed Mogul, the security guard of the building. Her fiancee, Avik Sengupta, who discovered her body, died of an illness in November 2013.
The prosecution said that Sajjad had planned to rape Pallavi after she rebuked him for stalking her. On the night of the murder Sajjad repeatedly switched off power supply to her flat. When she asked for help, Sajjad arrived with an electrician and stole the keys.
He later entered her flat with a knife. Finding Pallavi asleep he tried to rape her but she put up a strong fight.
The then joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy had called this perversion of the highest order and deserves nothing but the death sentence.
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