Sajjad Mogul, the security guard convicted in the killing of lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha at her Wadala apartment in 2012, was on Tuesday sentenced to one-year imprisonment and a Rs 5,000 fine for absconding after jumping parole. Mogul alias Pathan was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 after confessing to his crime.

Caught by police inspector Sanjay Nikam and his team in October this year, Mogul was an inmate of the Central Jail Nashik since his conviction. He was granted parole from February 26, 2016 to March, 28 2016 to tend to his sick mother, but did not return to jail at the end of the parole period.