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examination. The parties went in; but I was on the outside.
Q. How do you know that the consultation was at the house of Sudder u dein, as you have said?
A. Ramchendra told me that he and three others, Gopy Nazir, Munshi sedruddin, and [ILL] Babu had consulted together at Sedruddin’s house. Gopy Nazir had told me, in the presence of Ramchendra, that I was to get the above bail men, as I have before mentioned [ILL] The enmity of Mucktaram which I before mentioned, was the true reason why I could not procude false witnesses. This I mean, that doing so was not my business. I was unwilling to do [a?] [bad?] thing.
Whether good or bad I could