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518:, an enraged Nanavati wanted to shoot himself, but was calmed down by Sylvia, who told him that he was not to be blamed and there was no reason that he should shoot himself. Since Sylvia did not tell him whether Prem intended to marry her, Nanavati sought to find it out for himself. When Nanavati met Prem at the latter's bedroom, Prem had just come out of the bath dressed only in a white towel; an angry Nanavati swore at Prem and proceeded to ask him if he intended to marry Sylvia and look after his children. Prem replied, "Will I marry every woman I sleep with?", which further enraged Nanavati. Seeing Nanavati go for the gun, enclosed in a brown packet, Prem too went for it and in the ensuing scuffle, Prem's hand caused the gun to go off and instantly kill him. 527:
that the towel would have stayed intact. After Sylvia's confession, a calm and collected Nanavati dropped his family at the movie theatre, drove to his naval base and according to the Navy log, had acquired a gun and rounds, under a false pretext. This indicated that the provocation was neither grave nor sudden and that Nanavati had the murder planned. Ahuja's servant Anjani testified that four shots were fired in quick succession and the entire incident took under a minute to occur, thus ruling out a scuffle. Nanavati walked out of Ahuja's residence, without explaining to his sister Mamie (who was present in another room of the flat) that it was an accident. He then unloaded the gun, went first to the
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Nanavati went to the naval base, collected his pistol on a false pretext from the stores along with six bullets, completed his official duties and proceeded to Ahuja's office. On not finding him there, he went to Ahuja's flat and found him there. There was a verbal confrontation between the two men;
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The prosecution's version of the story and their counter-points against the defence's version, was based on replies by witnesses and backed by evidence. The towel that Ahuja was wearing was intact on his body and had neither loosened nor fallen off. In the case of a scuffle, it is highly improbable
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Appellant Commander Nanavati, a Naval Officer, was put up on trial under sec. 290 and 304 Part I of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for alleged murder of his wife's paramour. The High Court dismissed the earlier acquittal by a Jury Trial and convicted the accused to life imprisonment under Sec. 302 of
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he had promised to take them to, but excused himself and headed straight to confront Prem Ahuja. When Sylvia was asked in court why she went to the cinema, leaving her agitated husband behind, she answered, "I was upset myself and I did not think clearly then. I was not indifferent to my husband
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friend of Nanavati's. In her testimony in court, Prem's sister Mamie Ahuja, stated that Prem had agreed to marry Sylvia, provided she divorced her husband. However, this was contradicted by the letters written by Sylvia (admitted as Sylvia's testimony), where she expressed her desire to divorce
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Nanavati and marry Prem, but she doubted whether Prem had the same intentions. In a letter, she wrote "Last night when you spoke of your marrying me and the various other girls you might marry, something inside me snapped and I knew I could not bear the thought of your loving someone else".
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according to Nanavati's account related in court, he had asked Ahuja whether the latter intended to marry Sylvia and accept their children. After Ahuja replied in the negative, three shots were fired and Ahuja dropped dead. Nanavati headed straight to confess to the
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The incident both shocked and riveted the entire country. Such a 'crime of passion' was considered unusual. People also found the unfolding relationships intriguing; Nanavati had known Ahuja for nearly 15 years and Sylvia stood by her husband after Ahuja's murder.
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On 27 April 1959, Nanavati returned home from one of his assignments and finding Sylvia aloof and distant, he questioned her. Sylvia, who now doubted Prem's intention to marry her, confessed the affair to her husband. Nanavati dropped his family at the
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and then to the police to confess his crime, thus ruling out that he was dazed. The deputy commissioner of police testified that Nanavati confessed that he had shot dead Ahuja and even corrected the misspelling of his name in the police record.
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can be pleaded, if the homicide is not premeditated and occurs, due to a grave or sudden provocation, or in a sudden confrontation, without taking any undue advantage or acting in a cruel or unusual manner, irrespective of who provoked first.
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Nanavati spent 3 years in prison; it was feared that a pardon for him could elicit an angry reaction from the Sindhi community to which the Ahuja family belonged. At around this time, the government received an application for a pardon from
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under which Nanavati was charged, with an 8–1 verdict. Mr. Ratilal Bhaichand Mehta (the sessions judge) considered the acquittal as perverse, and took a historic decision of overturning the jury's decision. He referred the case to the
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Culpable homicide is not murder if the offender, whilst deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes the death of the person who gave the provocation or causes the death of any other person by mistake or
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Culpable homicide is not murder if it is committed without premeditation in a sudden fight in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel and without the offender having taken undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual
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account based on the murder. The book, spanning four decades between the 1950s and 1990s, tells the story of Mrs. S, the second woman besides Sylvia, with whom Prem had a physical relationship. In the title,
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The court accepted the arguments, dismissed the jury's verdict and the case was freshly heard in the high court. It was claimed that the jury had been influenced by media and was open to being misled.
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The High Court agreed with the prosecution's argument that the murder was premeditated and sentenced Nanavati to life imprisonment for culpable homicide amounting to murder. On 24 November 1961, the
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was inspired by the case. Author Bibekanada Ray described the film as one of Menon's films "dealing with various contemporary political and social concerns" in her book about India's
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is also based on this case. It focuses on a lonely foreigner who, stuck in India, falls in love with a man (who isn't her husband) and the consequences of the affair.
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in India, despite there having been several trials that utilised a jury since. Soon after the case, jury trials in criminal law were phased out in favour of
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might have been seen by the press and public at other times as a blatant misuse of power to help the crony of an influential political family. However,
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The incident received unprecedented media coverage and inspired several books and films such as the 1963 movie Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke, the 1973 film
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Jury's Judgment for defendant, Jury() Trial-Charge-Misdirection-Reference by Judge, High Court Conviction under Sec.302 of the Indian Penal Code
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Due to the popularity of this case, as well as the widespread media coverage it gained, there developed a misconception that this was the last
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With Nanavati frequently being away from home on assignments for long periods of time, Sylvia fell in love with Prem Bhagwandas Ahuja, a close
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in India, but there were several trials afterwards that used juries, some well into the 1960s. Nanavati was finally pardoned by
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by playwright Madhusudan Kalelkar is also based on this case. Arun Sarnaik played the character of Cdr. Nanawati in it.
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In the latter scenario (i.e. premeditated murder), Nanavati would be charged with murder, with the sentence being
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any accused nor could punish the accused. The jury in the Greater Bombay sessions court pronounced Nanavati as
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Explanation – It is immaterial in such cases which party offers the provocation or commits the first assault.
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Was Sylvia's confession grave provocation for Nanavati, or any specific incident in Ahuja's bedroom or both?
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of the Western Naval Command and, on his advice, turned himself over to the Deputy Commissioner of Police.
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had only one task: to pronounce a person as 'Guilty' or 'Not Guilty' under the charges. They could not
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where Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's
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The crux of the case was whether Nanavati shot Ahuja in the "heat of the moment" or whether it was a
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killing himself… It is difficult to explain these things to children, so I took them to the cinema."
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The prosecution argued that the jury had been misled by the presiding judge on four crucial points:
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The jury was not instructed that Nanavati's defense had to be proved, to the extent that there
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All of those advantages may have, in other circumstances, availed Nanavati nothing, for a
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The judge wrongly told the jury that the provocation can also come from a third person.
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Based on K.M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra Release date: 12 August 2016 (India)
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After his release, Nanavati, his wife Sylvia and their three children emigrated to
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After Nanavati's acquittal by the jury was dismissed, his retrial was held in the
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with Sylvia (née King), his English-born wife and their two sons and a daughter.
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2 per copy, up from the normal rate of 0.25 rupees. Peddlers on the street sold
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that it was an accident and not premeditated murder was on Nanavati.
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Rustom poster: Akshay Kumar playing ‘honourable murderer’ Nanavati?
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Kawas Manekshaw "K. M." Nanavati (1925 — 24 July 2003), a
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film which seemed to exploit the case. It flopped at the
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Influential Parsis held regular rallies in Bombay, with
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Nanavati had moved in the same social circles as the
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A fictionalized account of the case also appears in
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Supreme Court of India
Maharashtra
court case
lover
jury
Bombay High Court
bench trial
jury trial
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru
Achanak
Rustom
web series
The Verdict

Cdr
Parsi
Commander
Indian Navy
Bombay
Sindhi

Metro Cinema
Tom Thumb
Provost Marshal
premeditated murder
Indian penal code
culpable homicide
death

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