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"Mamie Ahuja was the real heroine” in the Commander Kawas Nanavati saga, said nonagenarian lawyer Ram Jethmalani at a panel discussion with In hot blood author Bachi Karkaria and journalist and writer Naresh Fernandes on May 21, 2017 at the landmark Royal Opera House. "Bachi has been unfair to her,” and the book contained "a tirade against the Sindhi community,” alleged Jethmalani. In 1959 Nanavati had shot Mamie’s brother Prem as he was having an affair with his English wife, Sylvia. Citing his evidence, the noted criminal lawyer quoted the page number which notes the Ahujas belong to the "moneylenders......



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