{"id":34078,"date":"2014-07-07T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34078"},"modified":"2014-07-07T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:25:33","slug":"life-imprisonment-woman-lawyers-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/life-imprisonment-woman-lawyers-killer","title":{"rendered":"Life imprisonment for woman lawyer&#8217;s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/life-imprisonment-woman-lawyers-killer\/pallavi-purkayastha\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?fit=240%2C160&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,160\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pallavi Purkayastha\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?fit=240%2C160&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34079\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?resize=240%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pallavi Purkayastha\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/Pallavi-Purkayastha.png?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>A Mumbai court Monday awarded life sentence to a watchman convicted of molesting and murdering a woman lawyer, Pallavi Purkayastha, two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sajjad A. Pathan alias Mogal, 23, worked at the Himalayan Heights apartments here when he stabbed to death the 25-year-old woman Aug 9, 2012. The victim was the daughter of a senior bureaucrat couple.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions Judge Vrushali Joshi observed that the crime did not fall in the &#8220;rarest of rare&#8221; category and hence Mogal should be imprisoned for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the judge pronounced Mogal guilty and said &#8220;a case of murder, molestation and criminal trespass has been proved&#8221; against him.<\/p>\n<p>Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam had sought death penalty for the man, spelling out the cruel nature of the crime and listing out various factors, including how the victim&#8217;s fiance Avik Sengupta died due to the shock of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Wahab Khan argued for life sentence, saying Mogal was only 22-year-old when he committed the crime and was the sole breadwinner of his family in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Police filed a 434-page chargesheet against Mogal in October 2012 following an investigation. During the trial, 43 witnesses were examined.<\/p>\n<p>Mogal refuted all allegations against him while his lawyer contended that Purkayastha&#8217;s fiance had killed her.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that Mogal, a watchman in the apartment building, used to ogle at Purkayastha whenever she passed by.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Mogal had once deliberately tripped her electricity meter. When Purkayastha called an electrician, Mogal accompanied him to her flat and quietly managed to grab the flat keys.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Mogal confessed that he entered Purkayastha&#8217;s flat using a duplicate key and attempted to force himself on her.<\/p>\n<p>However, she resisted and started screaming following which he panicked and attacked her with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Mogal&#8217;s conviction last week, the victim&#8217;s parents &#8211; Atanu Purkayastha and Sunita Purkayastha &#8211; expressed satisfaction with the police investigation and the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Atanu Purkayastha was a joint secretary with the central government when Pallavi was killed. His wife is a director-general in the ministry of telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our families (Puryakastha and Sengupta) have undergone a lot of trauma&#8230; We demand death for him as it will send a positive message to society,&#8221; they had told reporters last week.<\/p>\n<p>Avik Sengupta, who was one of the witnesses in the case and had deposed in the trial, died of natural causes in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Indo-Asian News Service<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mumbai court Monday awarded life sentence to a watchman convicted of molesting and murdering a woman lawyer, Pallavi Purkayastha, two years ago. Sajjad A. Pathan alias Mogal, 23, worked at the Himalayan Heights apartments here when he stabbed to death the 25-year-old woman Aug 9, 2012. 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