'File 19/165 III (C 24) Bahrain Reforms' [‎188r] (386/426)

Letibr from Messrs. Bhaishanker Kansa and Girdharlal , Son-
citors, Albert Buildings, Bombay, dated the 14th January
- 1925.
.. yf'i. il ^' P tbe honour to acknowledge receipt of your office No. 36-X., dated
the 24th ultimo , . j received on the 27th idem, and to thank you
tor the intimation that our client's appeal is beng transmitted to His Majesty's
Secretary of State for India. J
As regards our client's application to be put in funds for expenses con-
nected \uth his appeal, we may remind you that the grounds on which the
application was originally sought to be resisted ^ was that he had
been drawing Rs. 4,000 per month from the Bahrain State. Our client posi
tively denied this statement and a8S erted that he had
not drawn any allowance It now transpires Ihat the statement was wholly
unrounded and our client s denial thereof was fully warranted. The ground for
resisting our client's application is now changed, and it is stated that for eight
months, a^sum of Rs 4,(i00 per month w^as paid to the credit of our client
with the Eastern Bank, Bahrein, and that the procedure was discontinued as he
ret used to accept the allowance and the money standing to his credit was
absorbed into the State consolidated funds. .It is not necessary for the present
purpose to inquire how moneys once placed to the credit of our client could
have been withdrawn and re-absorbed into some other fund without his autho
rity and knowledge. It is only necessary to state that this change
of ground does not, any more than the original statement, negative our
client s application. So far as our client's constituted Attorney knows our
client had no notice or intimation of any kind whatsoever of the credit having
been opened for him with the Bank named , ,r
at any time during the eight months. Moreover,
w hat our client wants is, not any maintenance allowance but funds for a
necessary and legitimate purpose. He much regrets the suggestion in your
letter that he should place himself in direct correspondence with his son on
the subject of an allowance ^ w^ch looks very
much like adding insult to injury. He has not asked for a maintenance
allowance, and it is unthinkable that he, the Ruler of his State, unjustly
deprived of his status and his privileges should go to his son a suppliant tor
an allowance. He must decline to approach his son. His deposition, was the
act of the representative of the British Government, and his application tor
pecuniary help to obtain justice, is rightly made to Government, and we are
instructed to press this aspect of the case.
The statement that our client in last summer collected
a sum of Rs. 40,000 from certain State gardens which were allowed to remain
as his private property, is, we are instructed, as much of a myth as the state
ment that he had been drawing Rs. 4,000 per month as would be ascertame
on proper inquiries. .. £ * a
We are instructed now to request that our client's application ior tunas
may now kindly be acceded to at an early date as being just and proper
and necessary to enable him to seek the redress hitherto denied to him.