Life of Ahmad — Page 631
as POLICE HARASS AHMAD as 631 issued from his mouth. It clearly shows that the Pandit never thought of suspecting me in the matter. What weight, then, can be attached to a rumour disproved by admitted facts? The allegation that the public thought that I had some hand in the murder of Lekhr a m is also false. There was much difference of opinion as to the murderer and the cause of murder. Some newspapers (The Paisa Akhb a r and Ni za mul Hind , Lahore, and the Chaudhw i Ĕ S ad i , Rawalpindi, among others) gave out that the Pandit was the victim of the jealousy of some woman’s relatives with whom he had unlawful connection. In support of this allegation it was stated that, notwithstanding that the Pandit was in his senses for more than three hours after receiving the wound, he did not make any declaration, perhaps because there was fear of a secret being divulged. Some people suspected the Bombay Muhammadans who were making preparations to sue the Pandit for his grossly abusive writings. The Anjuman H im a yat-e-Islam and Anjuman-e-Nu‘m a niya, Lahore, were also suspected, and the office and school of the former and houses of the secretaries of both (viz. Haji Shamsud-D i n and Maulaw i T a jud-D i n) were searched. Similar suspicions were put forward against the late Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan of Aligarh. The Akhb a r-e- ‘ A m , on the other hand, had immediately after