Life of Ahmad — Page 700
THE WALL as 700 The other course open for Ahmad as was to approach his cousins for an amicable settlement. So he sent a few of his followers to them on his behalf. Ch. Ha kim Ali ra was one of them. He says that they had to return in disappointment. The builders of the wall rejected all proposals and treated them with contempt. Ahmad as then sent a deputation to wait upon the Deputy Commissioner and the S. P. , who happened to be near Qadian, but without success; they refused to interfere. At last his followers had to seek legal relief and they started criminal proceedings against the offenders, but they failed to convince the jury. Ahmad as did not like litigation; in fact he had no time for it. But here was a case of malicious and manifest aggression which caused unnecessary inconvenience, discomfort and suffering not only to him but to the whole of his community and family. He tried in every possible way to have the nuisance removed, but more than seven long months elapsed and yet there was no prospect of any early solution of the difficulty. The only and the last resort left for him was to set the law in motion against the offenders. So Ahmad as decided to institute a civil suit the enforcement of his legitimate rights. A regular plaint was therefore prepared and signed by Ahmad as on August 22nd, 1900. It was sent to Munshi Khud a Bakhsh, district Judge, Gurdaspur. After instituting the suit it was learnt that Mirza Imam D i n had some judicial record in his favour which showed that he was in possession of the land on