Almost two years after Mumbai lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha was brutally murdered inside her apartment building, a Mumbai court has found the security guard of her building guilty.  Purkhayastha's (25) brutal murder at her Wadala apartment on August 9, 2012, had left Mumbai shocked.

The court has pronounced Sajjad Ahmed Mogul, the security guard of the building, guilty on all charges. The quantum of punishment will be decided on July 3.

Her fiancee, Avik Sengupta, who discovered her body, died of an illness in November 2013.

The prosecution says that Sajjad had planned to rape Pallavi after she rebuked him for stalking her.

On the night of the murder Sajjad repeatedly switched off power supply to her flat. When she asked for help, Sajjad arrived with an electrician and stole the keys. He later entered her flat with a knife. Finding Pallavi asleep he tried to rape her but she put up a strong fight.

The then joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy had called this perversion of the highest order and deserves nothing but the death sentence.