Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Trial of Muluk Chand for the Murder of His Own Child: A Romance of Criminal Administration in Bengal
The light that this a, se' throws upon the administration of Justice in the rural districts of Bengal is somewhat painful. The miscarriage of justice was due to the corruption of the (police and their determination to support a wrong opinion by tutoring a child in falsehoods to swear away its father's life. At the same time the readiness of the people to perjure them selves is a fact full of significance as to the difficulty of carrying out a pure administration of the law.
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