He mentioned that the man whom he had seen suspended in the tree was his brother-in-law; that he had had two other members of his gang killed by the villagers on that occasion, but had succeeded in carrying off their bodies; that Goberae, Bhowaneedeen, and the rest of his followers were still at large and prosecuting their trade.

Nunda Pandee was by the Resident made over for trial and punishment to the Durbar; and Goberae and Bhowaneedeen have since been arrested and made over also.
They both acknowledged that they murdered the Gosaen in the manner above described, May 1851.

The Mahommedan law-officer before whom the case was tried declared, that he could not, according to law, admit as valid the evidence of the wife and two sons of the murdered Gosaen, because they were relatives and prosecutors; and, as the robbers denied before him that they were the murderers, he could not, or pretended he could not, legally sentence them to punishment The King was, in consequence, obliged to take them from his Court, and get them sentenced to perpetual imprisonment by another Court, not trammelled by the same law of evidence.

This difficulty arises from _blood_ having its _price_ in money in the country where the law was made, or the _Deeut_; any person who had a right to share in this _Deeut_, or price of blood, was therefore held to be an invalid or incompetent witness to the fact.
On the road from Bahraetch to Gungwal we saw very few groves or fine single trees on either side.

The water is close to the surface, and the soil good, but for the most part flooded during the rains, and fit only for rice-cultivation.