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Meer Khan examined by the Court.

her rank to go into a Bazar and such a disgrace as would prompt one to kill the Person that brought one to it. Such a disgrace as one cannot shew one’s face after suffering it; and all the family asked her why she did not in preference take Person, and kill herself.
When the Peons said they were to some the Plaintiff I was at the door, the Plaintiff was in her Palankeen, the rest of the Ladies were marched by the defendants (Bahadur’s) Slave Girl, in the Presence of the Peon: The Plaintiff was not searched. How could they do it when we surrounded her? had the Peon attempted to take up the Purdah of the Palenkeen, we should have killed him.
Certainly had the Plaintiff been searched by the Peon as he threatened, it would have been such a disgrace that her relations would not
have