However, this was contradicted by the letters written by Sylvia (admitted as Sylvia's testimony), where she expressed her desire to divorce Nanavati and marry Prem, but she doubted whether Prem had the same intentions. In her testimony in court, Prem's sister Mamie Ahuja, stated that Prem had agreed to marry Sylvia, provided she divorced her husband. With Nanavati frequently being away from home on assignments and affairs for long periods of time, Sylvia fell in love with Prem Bhagwandas Ahuja, a close Sindhi friend of Nanavati's. M.' Nanavati (1925 - 24 July 2003), a Parsi, was a commander in the Indian Navy and had settled down in Bombay with Sylvia (née King), his English-born wife and their two sons and a daughter. The incident received unprecedented media coverage and inspired several books and films such as the 1973 film Achanak, the 2016 film Rustom, and the 2019 web series The Verdict. Nanavati was finally pardoned by Vijayalakshmi Pandit, newly appointed Governor of Maharashtra and sister of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The case is often erroneously believed to be the last jury trial in India, but there were several trials afterwards that used juries, some well into the 1960s. Commander Nanavati, accused under section 302, was initially declared not guilty by a jury, but the verdict was dismissed by the Bombay High Court and the case was retried as a bench trial. State of Maharashtra was a 1959 Indian court case where Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife's lover. The High Court dismissed the earlier acquittal by a Jury Trial and convicted the accused to life imprisonment under Sec. 290 and 304 Part I of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for alleged murder of his wife's paramour. Jury's Judgment for defendant, Jury Trial-Charge-Misdirection-Reference by Judge, High Court Conviction under Sec.302 of the Indian Penal CodeĪppellant Commander Nanavati, a Naval Officer, was put up on trial under sec.

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