99 HYDERABAD, 19th April, 1891.
The resolution recently issued by H. E. the Minister about the City Murder Case, teaches many lessons. It shows what a persistent agitation in the cause of truth and justice could do even in Hyderabad as "well as how much the weak-kneed officials are to be pitied who lend themselves to the perpetration of a wrong or perversion of justice. Mr. Syed Ahmed Raza Khan who interpreted law as he pleased and refused to admit important evidence in a remarkably authoritative manner, who was determined not to be taught his duty either by pleaders or newspaperwallahs and who was both lauded up and defended for his judgment by the "month piece of the Government"-what a sad plight he is in now! Sir Asmanja Bahadur says that 'if his judgment had been confirmed, it could, with truth, have been affirmed that justice itself had been slain;' and the Government organ, with a consistency (!) unheard-of in the annals of Indian journalism, finds it impossible to see how, with any credit to himself or usefulness to the State, Mr. Justice Hafiz Ahmed Raza Khan can continue to dispense justice from the High Court bench any longer. Mr. Raza Khan might well exclaim Et tu Brute-but then the man who trusts to politicals and hirelings for support and deflects from the path of right and duty has little reason to blame any one but himself.
