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HYDERABAD, 10th January, 1891.
Mr. Syed Ahmed Raza Khan has proved himself a good hand at special pleading. His order for the discharge of two of the accused in the City marder case has been published in the local papers since my last writing to you. And those incredul- ous people who might not have believed the information I placed before your readers about the murder case, could see for themselves now that I did not invent things to cause "mischief." As for the order itself, any one with a modicum of common sense could read between the lines of it a desperate attempt to exculpate Abdul Wahid fully. When the man who had driven the murdered woman to the scene of murder-or rather to with- in a short distance of it, confessed in court to being able to identify the man that had accompanied the jutka, Ahmed Raza Khan bade the Nazir of the Court and two chaprasees to take him through the streets of the City and ask him to point out every one of those he had ever driven in his jutka. This decla- res the spirit in which the trial, so far as Abdul Wahid was concerned, was conducted-and this is the spirit which charac- terises the order. If there were little evidence to incriminate Abdul Wahid, there was less against Wazeeran the decoy. Yet Abdul Wahid has been at large on bail for several days now, while Wazeran is still in police custody. How is this to be accounted for? No application was ever made in Court for Abdnl Wahid's being admitted to bail, and unless we believe a statement made by a local paper that Abdul Kader, Wahid's brother, had had a private interview with the Judge just before the proceedings of the case began and had not only applied but arranged for his being released on bail, no application was ever made even out of Conrt. If Wahid could be let off on bail in the absence of an application put in for it, why was not Wazeeran dealt with similarly? Referring to the evidence given by the murdered woman's daughter, Ahmed Raza Khan says that those (meaning the police,) who are adepts at tutoring grown-up people could easily get a little girl say what they
