CO129-577-9 Badan Singh- petitions that he should be considered for promotion 2-11-1939 - 9-1-1940 — Page 18

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now be more than fully occupied by matters of far greater

importance), and that he makes this special request only because

he somehow feels that the fact that he is but one of the least

of the servants of the great Colonial Empire over which His

Majesty the King Emperor has appointed You to preside, will not,

to You at least, be any reason for his case not receiving that

full and impartial consideration which he humbly ventures to

hope it merits ;

17. That he is unwilling to believe that it is in accordance

with the principles of British justice that an accusation which

has not been proven should again be brought against an officer

years later in spite of a thoroughly excellent record of service

in the intervening years ;

18. That he feels all the more strongly with regard to this

because

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no matter how clear Mr. Carrie's case against him

might have appeared to him (Mr. Carrie) in May, 1933, and no

matter how involved the links in the chain of circumstances in

he was most certainly

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Your petitioner's reply to those charges

entirely free of any real guilt in that matter; yet he has ever

since had to endure continued mental suffering because of the

reprimand then conveyed to him; now comes this public deprivation

of promotion which, in view of his service record, he can only

suspect is intended to be six years later a further punishment

for the same "offence" of which he then protested, and still

protests, his innocence ;

19. That the correspondence which he is requesting be forwarded

to You in connection with Mr. Carrie's charges in 1933 consists

of :-

(1) Hon. Colonial Secretary's letter of 15th May, 1933;

(2) Your petitioner's letter of 27th May, 1933;

(3) Hon. Colonial Secretary's letter of 15th June, 1933;

(4) Your petitioner's letter of 21st June, 1933;

(5) Hon. Colonial Secretary's letter of 3rd July, 1933;