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HYDERABAD, 22nd November, 1991.
Information reaches us from Calcutta that Mr. Garth, Barrrister-at-Law, appeared in behalf of Jacob, before Mr. Justice Wilson, on the 18th instant and applied for summonses being served on Mr. Abid, His Highness the Nizam's Chamberlian, and Sir Asmanjah, requiring the former to produce certain papers and the latter to attend as a witness for the defence when The Diamond case comes on for hearing on the 30th instant, and that his Lordship granted the issue of summons to Abid as he had placed himself under the court's jurisdiction, and refused it in the case of Sir Asmanjah on the score of his being a subject of, and resident in a Native State. The refusal of permission for the serving of summons on Sir Asmanjah, on the part of Mr. Justice Wilson, is very unfortunate for Hyderabad, for the Prime Minister's evidence might-incidentally-throw a flood of light on the secret forces working behind that clumsy blind-the Hyderabad Government. But as His Highness the Nizam has declared, in his now famous manifesto, his willingness to give the defendant the "fullest opportunities" of defending himself," it is to be hoped that he will prevail upon his Minister to place himself under the jurisdiction of the Calcutta Court, as Abid has done, only to see how far what he knows about the affair can be in Jacob's favour.
I have heard in connection with the Diamond Case" some- thing which shows how much one in the position of the Nizam, surrounded as he is by the solid phalanx of a clique bent on self-aggrandisement, may be imposed upon. As this comes to me from a very reliable quarter, a quarter from which I have hitherto heard nothing that turned out unfounded, I should like to mention it for the edification of the readers of the "Hindu." Though it is an open secret that but for the influence of the party in power we should never have heard of the prosecution against Jacob, it is not known beyond a very limited circle that the object the party had in bringing about the prosecution was
