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you here now? You have brought this old man to a state of starving & I am obliged to maintain him.” Upon this Prakash Bhutt said to me “had you not been a friend to the old man & maintained him & protected him, by this time he would have been starved to death. Then you are his protector.” On Bhut’s Saying this Soonder Dass came up to me & gave me a slap on the face. At the same time Callian Singh & Prekash Bhut gave me sevl blows with