Indian YearBook Compiled by J Murdoch Author:John Murdoch General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " The peons had not looked fur this, and began to fear retribution. One was a Kunabi, and one a Mussalman, and with their respective 'caste people they used all the means in their power to prevent the facts of their having tortured the wretched suicide from coming to the knowledge of the magistrate. They succeeded with their immediate superiors in having reports of the suicide made with no reference to the cause, and they succeeded in keeping the husband from making a complaint for a fortnight. But at last, they having i'ailed to fulfil their promises to him as is reported, or he having recovered from sickness as he says, made a complaint, and the facts were proved by many witnesses. " They were each sentenced to three years' imprisonment, of which one month is to be solitary confinement, and the Mahalkari and Fouzdar who attempted to shield them from justice, are suspended from their appointments." Bengal. -- Arrangements were in progress for re-organising the Police on the new system. Some of the old Military Police had not been disbanded on account of the insufficient regular military force. Ceylon. -- A Police force, on the model of the Irish Constabulary, was introduced into some Districts of the Island several years ago. It has been found useful in checking the theft of coffee,« less