Sergeant 'T. B. Barnes-Cooke, attached to the office of the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Sikhs, said that he spoke Hindustani quently, and the first occasion on which he' saw the accused was when he came into the commissioner's office on Wednesday, May 21. According to the police records, he was employed at the Notional Industriat Bank of Ching a3 0 night watchman Accused made a complaint against 'Chinese private detectives employed at the bank, and also against Fand Buksh, the dead man, who was an Indian' watchman employed on day duty at the bank, The complaint was to the effect that the Chinese detectives were contintally teasing him about having Chinese prostitutes in his room, also that Fand Buksh had been swearing at him and teasing him, and had even made him take his meals. separately, Witness told Ulnar Din to make a report to his employers at the bank, the case did not come under his own jurisdiction, "By his insttuetions, the two parties came to the office on the following day when Fand Buksh denied knowledge of the report con: cerning the prostitutes. He swore on the Koran that he bore no. animosity against Ulnar Din, and that he had never abused him." Witness later told Ulnar Din that it wat very dimeult to find employment nowadays, and advised him to work together with Farld Buksh without any trouble. At! that time, he regarded the matter a trivial matter and he had the same kind of complaints made to him many times a day.
Witness later saw accused in the charge room of the Central Police Station on May 29. Later, in the detective arnee, he took down a statement by the accused, and read It out to him in his native language. He conversed with the accused In Hindustani during his interviews with him on May 27, 28 and 29, Two eye-witnesses of the alleged murder gave evidence against Ulnar Din, on Saturday" and both told very similar reports of the elreumstances of the murder, "Ahmud Ah, who was in the room at the time of the alleged murder, was the frst to give evidence, and' the testimony of Khalr Din, one of those alleged to have been injured by the accused, was then taken, 'Witness stated that at 11:30 p.m. on the night of the alleged murder he dined with Fand Buksh at a Chinese staurant, and afterwards he started make' towards Fand Buksh's quarters, The latter requested him the night, and he agreed to Deceased's quarters were on the ground floor of the bank, Witness recognized the accused as Ulnar Din, employed by the National Industrial Bank as a night watchman, He slept in the same room as Fand
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