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one an idea as to the arbitrary way in which things are done here under the present regime. The Raja Srinivas Row had, while submitting the statement of claims of the Nawab Alam Ali Khan for Rs. 1,45,000 wrote to ask the Accountant-General if the statement was correct. And a reply was sent to this from the Accountant-General's Office. At the time that the discovery (1) was made of frauds by Mr. Manover Khan, it was found that one of the lines of this reply had been erased out and a new one substituted instead. An inquiry was set on foot as regards the "authorship" of this erasure and substitution. And one Balakishen came forward and said that he thought that the line substituted was in Chella Rama Rao's handwriting. This was enough to include Chella Rama Rao's name in the list of the accused in the second case. Justice Afzul Husain examined Rama Rao and finding no evidence to confirm Mr. Balakishen's "thought" acquitted him. The acquittal notwithstanding, Rama Rao has "deserved" dismissal from the service.
What has become of the case of the Taluqdhar of Parbhani? When political opponents are concerned, justice is busy trumping up charges, cooking up evidence and 'punishing' offences in anticipation of conviction. At other times it "sleepeth." Here is a man—I mean the Taluqdar of Parbhani-who stands charged with many crimes (committed during the last four years) by men who are in a position to bring home to him all their charges. Yet the Government looks away from him until its attention is forced towards him, then suspends him and troubles itself about him no more. Why? Is it that, being a creature of the Nawab Busheerud-Dowlah's, he deserves to be spared all the disgrace and annoyance of a trial that innocent men, that men known to be innocent, have been subjected to? Is it that the mighty Nawab who opposed the "Taluqdhar's" appointment to the first Taluqdharship of Nalganda about four years ago, on unassailable grounds to be sure, has since come to think differently or finds reason to safeguard the interest of the man? We have heard of no charges being framed against him. No commission has been
