Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhidey, the Accuser of Lieutenant-Colonel Ovans, and Ballajee Punt Nathoo, of Bribery and Corruption at Sattara Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ... CASE OF KRUSHNAJEE SUDASEW BHIDEY, From the month of December, 1836, when he was suborned, by the promise of a liberal reward, to write a paper, criminating the RAJAH OF SA TTARA, and twelve other persons, until the 26th February, 1845, the date of a Petition to the House of Commons, preferring charges of Bribery and Corruption against Lieut.-Colonel C. Ovans, and Ballajee Punt Nathoo, and praying the appointment of a Commission to investigate the said charges. In December, 1836, ELrushnajee Sudasew Bhidey, a Brahmin, by profession a carcoon, or writer, and an inhabitant of Punderpore (in the Sattara territory), was hired by Lukshmun Punt Shekdar, of Sattara, one of the conspirators against the Rajah, and the agent of Ballajee Punt Nathoo, to write a document, purporting to be a petition from Geerjabaee, the mother of Govind Row (a man of rank then in prison), in which the Rajah was accused of treason to the British Government, and twelve persons, denounced by name, as his accomplices. This petition was secretly prepared in Sattara, and was then taken by Krushnajee to Punderpore, to be from thence despatched to Government, on the arrival of orders from Lukshmun. It was sent to Bombay, through the Punderpore post-office, on the 10th of February, 1837, and is stated to have been received on the 6th of March. The Governor of Bombay, Sir Robert Grant, suggested that this document should not be sent to Colonel Lodwick, then Resident at Sattara, but be reserved until his supercession, and then committed to the hands of some one possessing more "tact," "dexterity," and " energy." It was accordingly kept secret until after the removal of Colonel Lodwick, and was then (on the 13th June) sent to Colonel Ovans, who had been appointed his successor. Colonel Ovans was, ...