CO129-577-9 Badan Singh- petitions that he should be considered for promotion 2-11-1939 - 9-1-1940 — Page 26

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subsequent time taken up or paid for passages for your

children, and, as you well knew, the said children never

having travelled as contemplated by the Government, dishonestly

and dishonourably retained and applied to your own use and

purposes the said sum of $847.26, maintaining silence on the

matter until asked on the 3rd May, 1933, for particulars of

the said children's passages, and making no refund to the

Government or step to that end, and leaving the Government

to believe ( as you well knew the Government would believe

in the absence of unexpected inquiry, rendered less probable

by a statement in a letter from you to the Director of Public

Works, dated 17th December, 1932, that your dependents had recently returned from India) that the said sum of $847.26

had been properly and finally expended, whereby the accounts

of the Government have been rendered incorrect in that the

said sum of $847.26 has not been shown ( as it should have

been) as recoverable, and whereby steps for recovery have been

long delayed, and such recovery has been and is now jeopardised

Copies of the following documents mentioned in the above

charge are enclosed

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Letter. Badan Singh to the Honourable Director of

Public Works of 26.1.32.

(Enclosure) Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd's letter of

20.1.32.

Treasury Voucher No. 212 of 10.3.32 and Voucher No. 1

of March, 1932, P.W.D.

Letter. Badan Singh to the Honourable Director of

Public Works of 17.12.32.

I am to call upon you to state in writing on or before

the 29th day of May, 1933, any grounds upon which

you rely to exculpate yourself.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

W.T. Southorn.

Colonial Secretary.