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Baz Beg was dead, that he is son in law of Gheirat Beg, that this deponent having heard on his return from Lucnow that the Defendt.
Nauderah Begum in Conjunction with the Cojah Zekeriah then of Patna aforesaid and other of her Aiders and Abettors had forged two several paper writings or Instruments respectively called in the Persian Language Hebah Namah and Ekraur Aum and that the seal of the deponent’s said Father in Law the said Ghyrut Beg was affixed to one or both of them in Testimony of the Execution thereof, and, that the said Ghyrut Beg was then in Confinement undera Guard in a House in Patna aforesaid which is called the House of Begconaut on account of an inquiry that was then defending before the Council of Patna on the subject of the said two paper writings or instruments this deponent forthwith went to the place where the said Ghyrut Beg was Confined and inquired of him what he had done to bring himself into such a Situation that the said Ghyrut Beg then did and often since has declared to this deponent, which declaration this deponent believes to be true, that the said Cojah Zekeriah had secretly and without the knowledge or Consent of the said Ghyrut Beg procured the seal of the said Ghyrut Beg from Mohutt erin ul Nissa then the wife of the said Ghyrut but since deceased, and had affixed the same to the said Heba Namah and Ekraur aum after the death of the said Shahbaz beg Khan and that the said Shahbaz beg Khan in his life time never had demanded or required the said seal from the said Ghyrut Beg nor ever expressed any wish or instruction of making or publishing
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