Word: nanavati
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome Commander Kavas Nanavati could consider himself fortunate. He was second officer on the cruiser Mysore, India's flagship; he had an excellent World War II record, ranging from convoy duty on the Murmansk run to the Anzio landing on the Italian coast; he had a comfortable home in Bombay, and his 28-year-old English wife, Sylvia, had borne him three attractive children. Nanavati was a good bet to become commander in chief of the Indian navy...
...last spring, Kavas Nanavati asked his wife a dangerous question: Why was she acting so cold toward him? Sylvia confessed that she was having an affair with a Bombay businessman named Prem Ahuja. After a painful discussion, Nanavati drove to his ship in Bombay harbor, checked out a .38 service revolver from the Mysore's armory. His next stop was the apartment of Philanderer Ahuja, whom he surprised as he was stepping from his bath. In a struggle over the gun, according to Nanavati, he shot Ahuja three times and killed him. Nanavati then surrendered himself to the Indian...