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girl called Radharani had been to the village of Mahesh in order to witness the exciting ceremony of pulling the Juggernauth car. She was hardly eleven years of age. Time was when her people had been very wealthy, for the child came of a great family in these parts. But when her father died, a relative brought a civil suit against her widowed mother. The suit involved the whole of the family property. The widow lost her case in the Calcutta High Court. No sooner did this happen than the heartless plaintiff executed his decree and ousted her from the family home. The landed property, amounting to some ten lakhs of rupees, all went to the plaintiff. What money there was in hand, was expended in paying costs and law expenses.