the Attorney General, and to state insufficiency of

that the in

the

legal evidence-

rendered it impossible to pursue the 2nd.

Shroff further, though every

endeavour was

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Criminally charged..

Regret

that these

proved unsuccessful,

Measures should

5.

have

but think that every

thing

was done that could have been done?

eral and the Executive

made to hold him responsible.

3.

The Attorney General reports in

his letter of 24

No

Despatch

4 December (Enclosure in

in my

92 of 13th December last) that

the Crown Solicitor did "issue writs

against each Shroff

and his sureties.", and in his letter

it is stated that he "took great pains to

forward

the

4.

The 2nd Shroff

was also placed,

in the dock at the Magistrates' Court and

by the Attorney General

Government.

As regards the formal or legal

6.

liability of the 1st Shroff,

in Eitel's letter of 4th October (enclosure

in

my Despatch

No 92 of 13th December)

it is stated that the Chest

"placed in the immediate

"Custody of the first Shroff"

and Conclusively in the Report of the Committee of Enquiry (25th October, enclosure in

my

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