The absconding convict in murder of lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha, Sajjad Mughal was nabbed from Sonmarg after being on a run since he jumped parole in February last year. Sajjad Mughal murdered lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in August 2012, after entering her flat in Mumbai's Wadala building and trying to rape her. Sajjad was caught the next day by a team of Mumbai crime branch headed by then API Mahesh Tawde. The fact that Sajjad had jumped parole came in front of jail authorities only in June 2016 after which a case was registered. Mughal had made advances against her which she objected after which Sajjad Mughal planned to rape her and tripped electricity of her flat.

Source: India Today October 10, 2017 15:33 UTC