The administration framed Nayak in a case of murder of a friend and the death sentence was pronounced on him on 13 November 1942. He was hanged on 29 March 1943 in Berhampur Jail.
Nayak faced charges of murdering a friend and was sentenced to death on November 13, 1942. He was hanged in Berhampur Jail on March 29, 1943.