Delhi-based businessman and aspiring producer Karan Kakkad pleaded for a peaceful death before his killer Vijay Palande (pic), and that is why the latter forced him to consume sleeping pills. The Crime Branch investigating the case of Vijay Bhimajirao Palande who allegedly killed Kakkad and smalltime actor Anuj Tikku’s father Arun, has learnt that Kakkad had begged Palande to spare him a painful end.