This case led to some unrest between the Parsi and the Sindhi communities in Mumbai. Meanwhile, a tabloid called Blitz was championing Nanavati's cause, and the case caught the public imagination in such a way that 25p copy sold for Rs 2 apiece.Р”РЃ. He appealed the sentence in the Supreme Court, which upheld the decision of the High Court in November 1961. The Bombay High Court found Nanavati guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment. With this argument, the then-young lawyer Ram Jethmalani, assisting in the prosecution, appealed to the Bombay High Court.Р”В§. Their stance was that the murder was premeditated, and committed in cold blood. The victim's sister Mamie Ahuja and the prosecution contested the fact that what Nanavati had done was not because he lost his self-control after discovering the truth about his wife's affair. It was practically Nanavati's word against the world's. There were only two people in the room when the incident happened one of whom was dead. There were no witnesses in the Nanavati case.

Seeing a wronged husband in front of them, the jury sympathised with the accused and ruled in his favour, 8 to 1.Р”Р„LSO WATCH: In Rustom's trailer, is Akshay Kumar a traitor or a patriot? Prem had supposedly responded to Nanavati's question of marrying Sylvia and accepting her children with a 'Should I marry every woman I sleep with?', before Nanavati shot him. Nanavati had the reputation of being a patriotic, morally upright officer of the Navy, who did not have any prior history of criminal charges.

It was in fact the Marshal who advised him to surrender himself.Р”В¦. Nanavati turned himself in in front of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, after confessing his crime to the Provost Marshal of the Western Naval Command.

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