Browsed edtv 40 and this randomly, and my 2 cents.
What CDS says re the arrogance of innocence-- love those words.
There's a strange power in innocence. It's not just wrt Priya's lies, but also re her behaviour with Krish, which has irritated so many. Yes, og Priya wasn't the type to get so friendly with a relative stranger or ask help from him. But she's been friendly with K precisely because she has no romantic feelings (and no idea he does).
I think most of us have been in a situation where we form friendships because we're thrown together in unusual circumstances or when a stranger feels familiar in a strange place (often when one, for example, is abroad alone and meets someone from the subcontinent).
Priya lied about being preggers with K's child because she thought she had no choice. That's a big thing to drag someone into, and he's the only one who knows this, so it is a bond.
I think CDS has it absolutely right re the accident legality. (Sorry, CDS, lost the tagged post.) An accident resulting in death, 2 years. But if proven murder, which could be done with Ram's testimony of how Soods were torturing Shivi, life imprisonment--14 years?
Priya had already admitted to being responsible and, apparently, processed. It wouldn't have been simple to retract that even if she'd been so inclined. Nandini played her game perfectly.
Priya wasn't wrong, imo. She did what she did with cause, not because she was heartless or stupid (then. She has been stupid later.) I wish she HAD told Ram, let him accuse and disbelieve her, and gone on from there. Because, one way or another, this had to happen for the ugly leap.
Why is Ram blind? Why is Priya silent on Pihu? Because the cvs have the moronic 'story' already plotted and they will do reveals as they please.