Word: nanavati
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial thrilled all India. Commander Nanavati appeared in court in full beribboned uniform, and arrived and departed each day in a navy Jeep. The ecstatic press and public hailed him as ''the Gregory Peck of the Indian navy." His penitent wife, demure in a white blouse and a white sari, testified for him. The commander in chief of the navy described Nanavati in court as "honest, sober, efficient, and a man of character.'' Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint...
...going to hang, Nanavati...
Hold up your head, Nanavati, 'cause...
...courtroom broke into cheers; people knelt down on traffic islands to give thanks. The only discordant note came from the presiding judge. He ruled that the jury's verdict was "perverse," and he insisted on referring the case to Bombay's high court for review. Its decision: Nanavati was guilty as charged, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...high court last week discovered that it was easier to sentence Commander Nanavati than to jail him. When police went to naval headquarters to serve the warrant, they were halted by a dramatic order from the governor of Bombay state, suspending the life sentence until Nanavati's application to appeal to the Indian Supreme Court could be heard. Newsmen predictably turned to India's ultimate moral authority: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. What, they demanded, was Nehru's reaction to this arbitrary flouting of the high court's order? Genially, Nehru admitted that naval headquarters had appealed...