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page 24 otherwise of the cheques means connivance, collusion or culpable neglect of duty. Has any attempt been made to make the Treasury Officer or his oflice people account for the failure? No; and why not? Because as a favourite of the Minister, Munaverkhan, theu Treasury Officer and now Officiating Accountant-General, stands next only to the Nawab Intesar Jung. A potent reason to be sure; and this is labelled Justice in Hyderabad. I believe I have noticed the judgment enough for to-day to give you an idea of the prejudice and influences that Afsul Husain has allowed to be brought to bear upon his judgment This is the man who, secure from his position on the Bench against the penalties prescribed for defamation characterises the evidence of a witness as untrustworthy, without a shred of a reason for doing so, and indulges in gratuitous insinuations with respect to him. And this is the man too who sat in judgment over Jaya Rao, once Deputy Accountant-General and sentenced him to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 5,000 and who sits in judgment over such men as the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung and the Rajah Srinivas Rao, to award God knows what punishment.