The Bombay High Court on Monday (November 10) upheld a trial court’s order convicting a security guard of a Mumbai high-rise for murdering a 25-year-old corporate lawyer in her flat in 2012. It also dismissed a plea by the victim, Pallavi Purkayastha’s father and the Maharashtra government seeking the death penalty for the convict.

The court instead sentenced Sajjad Mughal alias Sajjad Pathan to rigorous imprisonment for life, specifying that it will mean imprisonment till the end of his natural life.

The court also took into consideration that Pathan had escaped in 2016, when he was granted parole and was re-arrested 1.5 years after a search. It said that Pathan, therefore, will not be entitled to the grant of parole or furlough.

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