Sajjad Mughal jumps parole: Nashik police team camping in Kashmir returns, no fresh leads

“We are in coordinating with the other agencies and the probe to locate him is on,” S Jagannathan, Nashik Commissioner of Police, told The Indian Express.

Meanwhile, both the Nashik police and the prison department have denied reports of one more convict jumping parole.

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“News about another Kashmiri youth by the name Ajij Ahmed Abdul Ajij Malang alias Pathan jumping parole is incorrect. So far only Sajjad Mughal, who was convicted in the Pallavi Purkayastha case, has jumped parole and a case has been registered with the Nashik Police City in April after he failed to return on March 26,” Ramesh Kadam, Superintendent, Nashik Jail told The Indian Express.

Even Jagannathan clarified that the news report on another convict jumping parole is untrue.” We have checked with the jail authorities and there has been only one case of a convict (Mughal) jumping parole,” he said.

Mughul, a Kashmiri youth was convicted in 2014 by a city sessions court that held him guilty for molesting and murdering a 25-year-old Purkayastha.

In February this year, he was granted parole for a month so that he could visit his ailing mother. He was supposed to report back to the Nashik jail on March 26 but failed to do so and instead sought an extension, which was rejected by the local divisional commissioner.

Subsequently, in April this year, after Mughal failed to return, the Nashik Jail lodged a complaint with the local police. The case, however, has opened a can of worms in the police-jail machinery.