Mumbai, Jul 7 (Agencies) : Sajjad Mogul, the security guard of the building where Pallavi stayed, had been found guilty of all charges, including murder, molestation and trespassing.
Earlier on June 30, Sessions Judge Vrushali Joshi, pronouncing 23-year-old Mogul guilty, said that "a case of murder, molestation and criminal trespass has been proved" against him.
The accused was working at Himalayan Heights skyscraper in Wadala in south Mumbai where Pallavi Purkayastha (25) lived at the time of the attack on August 9, 2012.
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.
After painstaking investigations, the police filed a 434-page charge sheet against Mogal in October 2012. During the trial, a total of 43 witnesses were examined.
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