Born in 1876, a Brahmin, he spent his professional life in Edgbaston, Birmingham. He figured in the news in December 1943 when he was acquitted of a serious charge (*Brit med* 1944, 1, 56 quoting *Birmingham Post* 15, 16, 17 Dec 1943). His son was Anand Krishna Pardhy FRCS. Pardhy died in a London hospital on 28 June 1959 aged 85 and was cremated at Perry Barr, Birmingham. Update: See below for an updated and expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 14 July 2025 Krishna Moreshwar Pardhy was a general and gynaecological surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 8 December 1876 in the Central Provinces, India and studied medicine at Grant Medical College in Bombay. He qualified as a licentiate in medicine and surgery in 1899 and was then a medical officer in Bombay. He subsequently joined the Indian Army as a civil surgeon and was sent to South Africa during the Boer War, where he served in the Transvaal. He was awarded a South Africa medal. From South Africa he travelled to London. He gained his conjoint examination in 1901 and became a house surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro. In November 1905 he joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as a surgeon-lieutenant. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in December 1910 and moved to Birmingham, where he became a surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital. During the 1930s he also worked from an address in Harley Street, London. In 1914 he wrote a paper ‘Nephrotosis (movable kidney, floating kidney, dropped kidney) its relation to mental disorders and their treatment’ for the *Practitioner*. He was president of the Indian Medical Association of Great Britain and a member of the Midland Medical Society and the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Pardhy had first met Gandhi while he was in South Africa and stayed with him in Durban for a short while. In 1931, while attending the London Round Table Conference, Gandhi made a visit to Birmingham. Pardhy and his wife held a dinner for him at their house in Edgbaston, with around 50 other guests attending. In 1943 Pardhy was charged with sexually assaulting a patient at his consulting rooms in Birmingham. The first trial at Birmingham Assizes in July ended with the jury failing to agree. At the second trial in December, the jury spent just 45 minutes deliberating on their verdict: he was found not guilty. In 1911 Pardhy married Irene Margaret Hannam. They had three children – Anand Krishna, who became a surgeon in Bombay, Malini and Urmila, an accomplished singer and musician. Predeceased by his daughter Malini (in 1929), his wife (in 1947) and son Anand (in 1956), Pardhy died in a London hospital on 28 June 1959. He was 83.