More Indian troubles were expounded on September 15 in H. M. Police Court before Mr. A. J. Martin, Registrar, when Bogha Singh was charged with unlawfully assaulting and. beating one Ala Singh, a fellow watchman, denied ever having signed it, where: upon the lawyer admitted that it was not her he was representing but her family, Mr. Bryan suggested that i is matter and added, niost amounts to forgery."
On the lawyer's reply that it was not the girl he represented but the family, the Court replied forcibly that he could not represent the ae-_ cused and requested him to leave the The trouble, it appeared, arose first on September 11 when the two, fought and were haled before the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sikh Branch, for both were police watchman. The accused was dismised and the complainant cautioned, Therefore on Sept. 14 Bogha Singh paid a visit to Ala Singh, found him lying in bed, engaged him in battle and smote him over the head with a pole, originally intended for pounding spices.
The complainant appeared in court in shirt and coat deeply stained with blood and his head bandaged. He said that Bogha had hit him twice with a walking stick, and then as they left the hut in com the spice pounder and hit that.
The accused had a slightly dif. ferent story, He pleaded not guilty. "He hit me with the small stick, came on my fingers, and with the big stick' and it came on his head," he explained. Then, "I was slightly hurt but he was grievously hurt, that is the only difference." excuse was not taken, and he will now serve one month's hard labour for his sine,
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