The Archive · 1925

The Bombay Outrage

Bombay, Jan, 16.

An application to the police for protection, which has been made by the woman Mumtaz Begum (who few days ago was attacked and wounded while driving in a enr) on the ground that her life may be endangered when she is release from hospital, has been granted, The Government of India has sanetioned a reward of 10,000 rupees for information leading to the discovery of the instigators and perpetrators of the crime.

Jan, Altogether four"arrests have bet made in connexion with the Malabar Hill outrage, when a gang attacked motor-ear and killed Abdul Kadir Dawla and wounded the two other occupants and an English lieutenant, The latest arrest is that of Abdul Latif Ahmad, a fruit contractor from Indore, who, according to the police, had approached several residents of Bombay with a view to the abduction of the wom: Mumtaz Begum, and had also hat poured men from Indore, including Shafi Ahmad Khan, who was captured on the scene of the outrage by Lieutenant Seagert, Jan, 21.

Seven suspects have been arrested in Indore in connexion with the murder of Abdul Kadir Dawla, including man said to be' the faide-de-camp of the Maharajah of Indore, a sub-inspector of the Indore police, two State motor-drivers, a feaptain and another man serving in the Indore State troops and a mounted policeman, Proceedings will be taken with a view to bringing them to' Bombay. rests in Bombay now total inding two step-uncles and step-aunt of Mumtaz Begum, the woman who was in the motor-car with Dawia when the—murch occurred. Her mother now has arrived from Amritsar, was stated that the ubduetion jof the woman was the object of the outrage.—Reuter,

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