it-His Excellency Sir Asmanja Bahadur has been most infamously victimized by the wire-pullers, his philosophers and friends, in the interests of Ekbal Ali. Soon after Ekbal Ali's departure, his friends went to His Excellency, I am informed, and asked him to write to Ekbal Ali a letter bearing testimony to the many valuable services he had rendered to the State—a letter which might be of use to him in the North-West. The Minister paid little attention to the request in the first instance but on its being made to him often he asked his Private Secretary to wire to Ekbal Ali expressing his great satisfaction with the work done by him while here. The telegram, being drafted by one of Mr. Ali's faithful friends and allies, took the form of an expression of deep regret on the part of His Excellency at Mr. Ali's determination to sever his connection with the service of this State. And no sooner did this message reach Ekbal Ali, than he very graciously wired back to say that if His Excellency was so sorry he did not want to get away from the Hyderabad service and immediately started for Hyderabad.
I have seen the explanation recently filed by the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung in connection with the second Treasury Frauds case. It is an elaborate and plainly-worded document; and the calm, dignified tone of it and the contempt it evinces for all the mean minds that concocted the case against him - points the Nawab out to be a man with whom the party in power cannot trifle with impunity. At the outset it was declared from the housetops by Messrs. Munover Khan and Co., that frauds had been committed to the extent of 7 lakhs and a half of H. S. Rupees. The figure subsequently went down to four lakhs; and it has since vanished, for the Government itself has admitted that no overpayment was made to Dilawar Nawaz Jung. If the fraud has proved to be a mare's nest, why are the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung and the Rajah Srinivas Rao still bothered with departmental enquiries and harassed and threatened in all manner of ways? It may be asked. The why is a mystery—and it can be unraveled only by 12page 89
