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Police Prosecutor. All this is no do doubt demanded by prudential considerations. But then whether it is reason or justice the people are free to ask. In one of the two letters before the Court, there is a threat, I am credibly informed, on the part of Abdul Wahid to lay a trap, for Abdool Husain and the murdered woman. Why was this slurred over? Why was it that the clothes said to be blood-stained were not submitted to a chemical examination? Why was not the Police Vakeel permitted to put in 'more evidence'? Why was the Police Commissioner hurried on to bring up the case before the court? Why was it that within three days two Roobkars were issued to him to bring up the case "at once"? And how is this hurry to be reconciled to the delay caused by the granting of long adjourn- ments? These are some of the many questions that suggest themselves to all unprejudiced men who cannot bring themselves to believe in the innocence of the man who had the barefacedness to tell the Nawab Akbar Jung Bahadur in the presence of Messrs. Aiengar, Gilder and Fox; "write to the Judge a Roobkar and secure from him my pardon, and I shall make a clean breast of the whole affair." The Police and their, Vakeel have, it is admitted on all hands, done all that they ought to have. For this the Police head is in for an unwarranted and damaging imputation and the Police Vakeel has deserved dismissal. This is how the ends of justice are accomplished here.
I hear that Bishop Thoburn has written to the Rev. Mr. Gilder, of the Chadarghat Methodist Episcopal Church, to ask him not to identify himself in any way with the prosecution in the murder case. I hope, this is not true. If true, there is little chance of all the murderers getting their due. Being left without funds Sadullah, the husband of the murdered woman, will not be able to appeal against Ahmed Raza Khan's decision or do anything by way of getting justice meted out to the criminals. And the impression that justice is a costly commodity and the poor cannot get it, will find another confirmation
