Insufficient Evidence To Proceed with Case On the application of Mr. K. E. Newman, representing complainants, three charges prefatred against 3 young Indian clerk, Gobindral Assudumal Amernani of having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his employers including one amount of Y.5000 were withdrawn yesterday owing to insufficient evidence.
Heard before Mr. L T. Morris, Acting Registrar, in H.M. Court the Charges were preferred by Mr Kischinehand Ratanmal Malkani, in charge of the Shanghai office at 106 Peking Road of Messrs. Utoomal idamal Ca. of Hongkong.
In making the application, Mr: Newman stated that on inspecting the books after the first hearing on Saturday, the complainants had dis-Covered that some altered figures which, they had believed to have been written by defendant to cover a deficit of $6.80, were probably correct.
Defendant, he added, was without money at the present time, having had io borrow various sums and it appeared that his story of Y.5000 having been stolen from an open drawer was quite true, although there had been negligence on his part. He asked for the defendant to be given the benefit of the doubt and in discharging Amernani, Mr. Morris pointed out that it was not a case of giving the defendant the benefit of the doubt. He therefore discharged defendant as ihe prosecution had insufficient evidence to proceed with the charges.
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