[4] Mr. Nayar was born as Karunakaran Pillai, one of the six children of Kandamkalathil Sankara Panicker and Parvathy Amma at Central Travancore ( present-day Kuttanad, Kerala ) in 1907.

Later he remarried to Shakuntala Nayar from a Kshatriya family, native of Uttar Pradesh in April 1946 and have a child named Marthanda Vikraman Nair.

[6][5] He joined Indian Civil Service in 1930 and served in various positions in Uttar Pradesh including Gonda (1946), Faizabad (1 June 1949 - 14 March 1950).

He was the District magistrate having control over Ayodhya when Ram lalla idol was found inside Babri Masjid in 1949.

[9] Thereafter he joined Bharatiya Jana Sangh and was a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1965-67.