A city sessions court on Thursday reserved till July 7 its pronouncement of sentence on convicted security guard Ahmed Mughal alias Pathan in the Pallavi Purkayastha murder case, after the Prosecution rooted for death penalty to him and his defence lawyer prayed for leniency to his client in the form of imprisonment for life.
Three days after she held 26-year-old-old security guard Mughal guilty of murder, molestation and criminal trespass in the Pallavi Purkayastha case, Sessions Judge Vrushali Joshi heard final arguments from both the Prosecution and defence lawyer over the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the convict in the case. The Judge, however, reserved her ruling on the pronouncement of sentence on the convict, till Monday.
Pallavi Purkayastha, daughter of a senior New Delhi-based IAS officer, was brutally murdered by Mughal, a security guard working at a high-rise building “Himalayan Heights” at Wadala in north-central Mumbai, after she after she resisted his attempt to rape her in her 16th floor flat at Wadala here on August 9, 2012.
Apart from slitting Pallavi’s throat, Mughal had stabbed her in face, chest, cheeks and both the hands, with knife that he had carried with him when he stealthily entered into her flat using a key that he had stolen from the flat.