Life of Ahmad — Page 552
DR. CLARK DRAGS HIM INTO COURT as 552 legal proceedings were about to be taken against him, and that he would be finally discharged. There were other revelations also, bearing on the details of the case, but time does not permit of reference to them all. The case tried by Colonel Douglas was no ordinary one. Though apparently the prosecutor was a single individual yet he had with him the support of the whole community of which he was the representative. As Colonel Douglas told Mr. Dard the other day, the case was watched by the Punjab Government. The then Lieutenant-Governor of the province, it may be noted, was a member of the Church Missionary Society and it is said that the Public Prosecutor was instructed to see the case through 133. It is 133 It appears that a secret effort was again made against Ahmad as after he was discharged in this case. Early in February 1898, Mr. Sinclair, Government Advocate, applied to the District Magistrate of Gurdaspur to sanction the prosecution of Abdul Hamid under Sections 195 and 211 I. P. C. He declined to do so, but sanction was given under Section 193 and a warrant was issued. Mr. J. R. Dummond says, "Repeated efforts seem to have been made to effect the prisoner’s apprehension by means of warrants issued by the District Magistrate, but ineffectually, partly, perhaps, because the accused when appearing as a witness in the former case, had described himself as a Ghakkar, and his home at Qadian, while his apprehension in Kohat in February 1898, and information subsequently received pointed to Peshawar, as his residing place after he had escaped from Kohat Police in the separate matters to which reference has been made already. On the 8th May, the Legal Remembrancer addressed the Deputy Commissioner of Gurdaspur, asking what steps had been taken in the case further, and on the 15th May, a fresh warrant (in the Vernacular) was issed under