Sajjad Ahmed Mugal, 28, the murderer of lawyer Pallavi Purkaystha, who jumped furlough while serving life imprisonment at the Nashik Central Jail in February last year, is likely to languish in jail for a very long time. Mugal, who was arrested from his hometown in Jammu and Kashmir after a search operation that lasted nearly 20 months, has been blacklisted from the prison's "maafi system," which ensures speedy reform of a prisoner by awarding him/her remission (days cut from his prison term) as incentive for good behaviour.

Sajjad Ahmed Mugal, accused in the Pallavi murder case, was arrested earlier this month from Jammu and Kashmir