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Supreme Government. It is bad enough to have eyes and yet not to see. But it is worse to be blind or to blind oneself and expect every one else to be in the same miserable plight. If the accused is innocent as made out to be by the Judge in the first instance, then he need not fear the decision of the Divisional Bench and abscond. But if he is guilty and has reasons to fear that what was slurred over by the Judge might be taken notice of by the Divisional Bench and used against him, what guarantee is there that he will not abscond and thus cheat justice with a sop to Cerberus?
The collapse of the second of the Treasury Frauds cases has been announced. Mr. Badrudeen Tyabji is reported to have written to the Government to say there was no case against the accused in the case, and consequently those in custody in connection with it have been released. Patent as it has been to many men here, Afzul Husain could not or did not choose to see "there was no case" when he committed the grave error of summoning the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung and the Raja Srinivas Rao as being among the accused. Will the Government or rather the party in power notice this? If it be true that they are "innocent" of all connection with the prosecution in the case, they ought to take notice of this, and teach a lesson to the man who could wantonly heap indignities on high officials in the State. Just think of a man being hauled up before a Court or taken into custody on the strength of mere suspicion of his official conduct! Think of the first Treasury Frauds case in which people were sent to jail on the flimsiest grounds, and a man figured as an accused by reason of his having had a seat in the Accountant General's Office within sight of that of the man who forged signatures and you have an idea of the pass we have come to in Hyderabad, in the premier Native State in India!
Information comes to me of the issue of two incorrect cheques by the Officiating Accountant General within the last few days. Ali Abdullah, in charge of His Highness's Studs'
