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4Your Petitioner belieros that he was dismissed by the Honourable Captain Superintendent under a represcutation received by him that your Petitioner was fupliented in some money-lending transactions, and that being implicated in such transactions was and is against the Regulations of the said Police Force. The following are copies of certain documents signed by the said anammable Superintendent and given to your Petitioner slurtly after his dismissal.
Honakosa, 6th December, 1898.
UTTER SINUB Borvet for 18 years in the Hongkong Police, and 4 years under my personal command, during the last two of which he filled the post of Julian Sergeant-Major.
He performed his Police duties to my entire satisfaction, and bore a very good character.
Unfortunately it was found that he had been implicated in some money-leading muctions, which is against the regulations of the Force, and he was on that account dismissed.
F. H. MAY, C.SP.
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12.-Your Pestioner, theretic, humbly prys and entrants that having regard to the altogether non-incriminating ciaracter of the pircanistanees of the alleged money transaction, nail also taking into fitvorable consideration his longth of service in the anid Police Force, uninterrupted as it lus beun by teen so much as a month's absence on leave, his nuiform good conduct, and his steady promotion from the date of his joining the said Polico Force till he beentre a Sergeant-Major us aforesaid, your Excellency way he pleased to reconsider the order of dismissal pussed against him, and that your Excellency may be graciously pleased to reinstate him in his position of the Sergeant Major of the said Police Poros, acquired as it was by an assiduity extending over an unparalleled period of eighteen years, to which your Petitioner ventums to say hardly any member in the Police Fores can now bay claim.
13.--Your Petitioner also prays and onfronts that in the alternative of the non-reverent and mitigation of dismissal your Excellency may he gruiously plesend to grant to your Petitioner a full porsion in respect of his services in the said Police Force, and that your Excellency may be pleased to rake such other steps as to your Excellency may seem fit.
14--And your Petitioner will over pray, &c.
Dated this twelfth day of March, 1897.
UTTER SINGUL,
LATE INDIAN SERGRANT-MAJOR
HONGKONG POLICE FORCE.
POLICE DEPARTMENT,
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, R1st December, 1896.
Certified that Ex-Sergeant Major Urren Sixen joined the Police Force on the 10th December, 1878,
and was dismissed on the 3rd December, 1896.
5. Your Petitioner has reason to believe that the representation made to the Honourable Superintendent about Petitioner's alleged implication in leading transactions was made in the shape of an anonymous petition, by evidently interested parties for their own aggrandisement, but your Petitiouer does not mention this circumstance with a view to under- estimate the duc consideration that the Honourable Superintendent must have given bofore accepting such a representation. Your Petitioner only begs to state ife ciremastaaço with a view to point to the jealousy subsisting in the Indian section of the Force against success and promotion, and your l'otitioner respectfully submits that for that very reason greater opportunities of meeting the charges alleged againsi, him was due to him. As your Pelitioner was never definitely informed of the exact nature of the chargez made against him, he respectfully subcuits he had not had those opportunities of unecting those charges as could have thoroughly exculpated him in the eyes of his superine officer. So far as he has been male aware of such charges, your Petitioner honestly avers that no such offence has been proved to have been committed by bim as should have fed to the munuuary dismissal of your Petitioner, and to the curire extinction of the rewards and emoluments to which he was entitled after his eighteen years' unsullied service.
6-The only definite charge your Petitioner has been able to ascertain was made against him, was to the effect that about three years ago your Petitioner lent a sum of $50 or thereabouts to one Da Rocha, who was at the time a Telephone Clerk in the Central Police Station of this Colony.
7-Your Petitioner respectfully begs to dony that he over lent any money to the said Da Rocha. Tu the knowledge of your Petitioner, the money was lent by one Guuda Singh, an oxcise officer, as was stated by the said Da Rocha to the said Captain Saperintendent, and as could be proved by your Petitioner, Your Petitioner cannot deny that the tenosuction took place in his presener, but the presence was, your Petitioner verily now believes, inveigled in by the said Gunda Singh probably with a view to secure testimony of the transaction. Ganda Singh is well known in the colony as u money-lender he is a profesional money-louder--and under the pretext of inquiring of your Pulitiouer about Da Rocha's credit whilst giving the lone, your Petitioner's presence, it can never be gainsail, www to his great disadvantage unfurly pressed in.
8-Your Petitioner unfeignedly regrets that he unwillingly let himself to the methods of Gunda Stagh for securing his presence, mud that he was so fer made a dupe for the purposes of Gunda Singh, but beyond that youe Petitioner respectfully pleads not guilty to the womey-lending attributed to hún, and that lus is #ikewise innocent of ever having received a single cent of interest or any other commission in Conda Biugh's transaction,
9---And pleading so, your Petitioner exbmits that he has not been guilty of any breach attributed to hire of any of the Rules and Regulations for the general goverment and discipline of the Police force, nor does his action as trushfully so forth abovo come,jas your Petitioner has been advised, within the terms of any of the ordinances subsisting in torec at the time the said transaction was, ne attributed, effected by him.
10-Your Petitioner has not the least desire to shield his action, so far as it has gone, under any legal technicalities of any of the ordinances that may have a bearing on his present unfortunate position; he has neither the knowledge nor the means; but above all he has not the desire to controvert the orders of his superior offeec by any such means and
methods.
11-Your Petitioner only submits that the punishment that has been meted out to him undor a misapprehension of the unture of Petitioner's alleged implication in the transaction is out of all proportion, even so assuming for the moment that he was guilty to the full extent of the breach of discipline attributed to him. Your Petitioner has a large family out bere from: India to support, he has likewise to support his aged father, and a large circle of other dopondents in India, and though your Petitioner is fully aware that such considerations can hardly be taken into account for a recision of the order of his dismissal by the Captain Superintendent of Police, your Petitioner cannot but respectfully submit that the severity of the punishment in his case is thereby intensified beyond all contemplated measure.
To
IS EXCELLENCY
Sm: WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G..
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHTEN OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG AND ITS
DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ÁDMMALS OF THE SAME,
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF UTTER SINGH, OF No. 12, HOLLYWOOD ROAD, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, LATE SERGEANT-MAJOR IN THE POLICE FORCE,
MOST AVSPECIFULLY SIEWETH---
1. Your Petitioner, late Indian Sergeant-Major of the Hongkong Police Force, respectfully submitted to Tone Excellency, on the 11th day of March lust, a Petition ferring to the matter of his dismissal from the Polios Force, after eighteen years of hard, faithful and honest service, and praying for a reconsideration, on the grounds urged therein, of the order of dismissal passed against him, as also supplicating in the alternative of the non-reversal or mitigation of dismissal to take the lengthy period of his services into favourable consideration, and to grant him the peusion he is entitled to in repect of them.
2.--Your Petitioner deeply regrets to lenen from C.S.0, No. 430, addressed to him by the Honourable the Colonial Secretary, that your Excellency is able to modify your previous decision in the case or to grant your Petitioner any pension or gratuity,
3.-Your Petitioner further regents that he has not been vouchsafed any information as to the grounds on which his just and respectful prayer has been denied, and, barring an intimation of his alleged implication in some money. lending transactions, ta conveyed in the Certificato embodied in the Petition from the Houcurable the Captain Superintoudens dated the 6th December, 1896, and as also to some exieut conveyed through some verbal inquiry, partly made in his presence and partly in his absence, as to a transaction alleged to have taken place with one Da Rocha some three years ago, your Petitioner cannot but with due deference submit that he has been kept altogether in the dark as to the culpability of his cominct, and that he has not been given any fic opportunities of meeting any definite aburges. As to the particular tras action attributed to have been effected with The Roohn, your Petitioner has to place before your Excellency, over and above the details given in the first Petition, the foot of Da Rocha subverting his story when questioned by the Honourable Captain Superintendent in the Petitioner's presence, and as the Captain Superintendent was not slow on that occasion to tax him severely for telling a different and a radically different story under that officer's previogs inquiry in Petitioner's absence, and as this fact could well be corroborated by him, the question arises as to how far any reliance enn be placed ou, and as to what crevienen can be attached to, one or another version of Da Rocha in dealing with the conduct of a Police Officer who had beeu assiduously and honestly serving in the Foree for no less a duration of years that eighteen years, and during which long period not only that he served in a unique manner, without even so much as n month's absence on leave, hut also even without so much as a single black mark against his conduct in the official record.
4Your Petitioner sulmuits, that if for nothing else at least for the latter traits iu bis career, he is entitled to a treatment different from that which lus been inflicted on him, He would not rempitulare here all the points that have been urged by him in his first Petition, but he would only repeat here his plea of not guilty with reference to the alleged transaction with Da Rocha, and this plea your Petitioner lain a position to substantiate. if a copy of Da Rocha's different state- ments, as also a copy of Gunda Singh's satenicol as taken down by the Captain Superintendent, were supplied to him.
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