Pallavi Purkayastha murdered in Mumbai
The Mumbai Police claims to have cracked the murder of a 25-year-old lawyer, Pallavi Purkayastha. The security guard of the apartment building where she lived has been arrested after he confessed to the murder. Identified as Sajjad Pathan, the guard has reportedly told the police that he killed her simply because she had yelled at him a few days back.
Pathan said he decided to attack her at night as he knew she was alone. Pallavi was found dead by her live-in partner in their 16th floor apartment in Central Mumbai’s Wadala area on Thursday.
Pallavi Purkayastha, the daughter of Delhi-based senior bureaucrats, was found dead by her live-in partner Avik Sengupta in a pool of blood with her throat slit. She had multiple injuries on her face, hands and eyes, police said.
The couple-both law graduates-stayed on the 16th floor of the 20-storey Himalayan Heights. The Kashmiri watchman, 28-year-old Sajjad Pathan, was arrested after he confessed to the murder. He said he wanted to take revenge for the humiliation.
He was upset with Pallavi after she had rebuked him a couple of days ago. He felt humiliated and wanted to take revenge. Finding her alone in the flat, Pathan molested her and also made an attempt to rape her,” a crime branch officer said on condition of anonymity. Pathan was an employee of Ahmed Hamid Enterprises, a security services firm.
Police said the murder was committed around 1.45am after two electricians, who had come to restore power at Pallavi’s flat 1601 that had gone off at around 12.30am, left the place.
The murder came to light when 26-year-old Avik, working with a financial services firm, returned home from work at around 5.30am and found the door to his flat left open. As he stepped inside, he saw the bloodstains and Pallavi lying in her undergarments.
He immediately informed his neighbours and they called the police. “We came to know about the murder at around 5.45am,” said Nagesh Jadhav, senior inspector of Wadala police station.
