Sir — I am sure that many Indians, especially women, are disappointed that the accused who molested and murdered lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in her Mumbai flat, was handed just a life sentence, instead of being given capital punishment. The murder was gruesome and the victim was stabbed 16 times. If this does not qualify as ‘rarest of the rare’, what doesIJ
It is shocking to read that the defence had argued that the disturbed security situation in Kashmir had forced Sajjad Mughal to seek work elsewhere and cited the absence of any complaint against him previously during his two-year stint at the apartment complex, to seek leniency. The lawyer even argued that the murder had been done by another person.