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want. This suggestion, so to say, in the face of the well-known fact that it is not so easy to tutor little children as to instruct grown-up people so that they may not contradict themselves in their evidence—proclaims the determination to see a loophole even where there is none for the accused to escape by. It is said that the stains on the clothes held to be blood-stained by the prosecution might have been due to mosquito and bug blood and that there are hundreds of such clothes to be found in Hyderabad! Why were not some of these "hundreds obtained and compared with the clothes said to be blood-stanied? Seeing that the stains on one of the sherwani sleeves resembled the converse of the Arabic figure 7000, the Judge concluded that they were due to red ink. Was it ascertained in Court whether Wahid knew Arabic figures and whether he had been in the habit of using them? And was it asked what the occasion for the writing of 7000 had been? No—and why not? A Judge who could go out of his way to cross-question in behalf of the accused might have very well enlightened himself on these points. This coupled with the fact that the clothes were not submitted to a chemical examination, tells its own tale. Then we are told in the order that one of the letters found by the Police in Abool Husain's house speaks of Mumthiaz and not of Imthiaz, the name of the murdered woman, and consequently there is nothing to show that Wahid and Abool Hussain had fallen out on account of the deceased. If Wahid Ali in whose name the box holding the corpse of the murdered woman was consigned at the Hyderabad Railway station proved to be Abdul Wahid, is it difficult to believe, I ask, taking all the circumstances into consideration, that Imthiaz and Mumthiaz were one and the same?
Ahmed Raza Khan in a long preamble to the order, above referred to, holds up the procedure in vogue here, which admits an accused person to bail pending the confirmation by a Divisional Bench of the High Court of the order for discharge made out by the Judge in the first instance—for the information of the
