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It is not known whether these two petitions were forwarded to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. Section 96 (d) of the Colonial Office rules and regulations prescribes that any memorial from a dismissed servant must be forwarded to the Secretary of State without delay.
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Getting no relief, Attar Singh lodged a petition on 13th Sept: 1897 at the Governor's Office, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
On 29th Sept:, Attar Singh petitioned to know whether the last-mentioned petition had gone to England and got no reply.
Two days after, i.e., on the 1st Oct: 1897, he was taken to the local jail and was confronted with a prisoner who, without recognising Attar Singh personally, alleged that one Tse Leung had been paid certain monies to be given to certain policemen as hush-money, apparently on account of a gambling house.
Tse Leung was then brought from an adjoining room and said that he had received 10 dollars a week from 2 gambling-house keepers and had given the money to Attar Singh.
In another case (apparently in connection with the same group of charges), in which a police Inspector named Stanton was implicated, this same man Tse Leung had denied having given any money as bribes to Policemen (see P.S. on page 4 post). Stanton affirmed in an affidavit.
The charges against Attar Singh are thus unsupported by reliable evidence.
It is to be noted that this second charge as to the receipt of hush-money was made some 11 months after Attar Singh had been dismissed, when he was no longer amenable to the authority of the Captain Superintendent of Police and could not be tried departmentally or in a summary manner.