Mumbai, Nov 10, 2025

Rejecting a plea to hang the murderer, the Bombay High Court on Monday confirmed the life sentence awarded to security guard Sajjad Mugal Pathan, convicted for killing Mumbai lawyer and former bureaucrat’s daughter Pallavi Purkayastha in 2012.

The 25-year-old victim was a legal advisor with actor-director Farhan Akhtar’s firm Excel Entertainment at the time of the incident.

A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Neela Gokhale dismissed an appeal by the state government and the victim’s parents seeking a death sentence for Pathan, a native of Jammu and Kashmir and then a security guard in Pallavi’s building in Wadala East.

The bench simultaneously upheld the life sentence awarded to Pathan by the trial court, rejecting the convict’s plea against the 2014 decision of t

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