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JAINA GAZETTE. [December relative. Even his wife and children have been denied aecess to him. The denial of the society of his fellow-men is considered so severe a form of punishment that criininologists would not allow a man to be imprisoned for more than a week at a tine and the total period of such confinement cannot exceed 3 months, ride sections 73 and 74 of the Indian Penal Code.
We know little about the laws and rules of procedure in Indian States, but we can say that 9 months' detention in Haralut without a trial, or even a charge, would not have been tolerated by any Magistrate in the British Raj.
We trust that the British Resident at Jaipur will kindly look into this case, and allay the agonizing anxiety of the wife and children of Arjun Lal and of the Jain Community in India, by either obtaining his release, or at least by a general publication of the proposals for disposal of his case.
We are informed that Arjun Lal has suffered very seriously in health, and that if no immediate attention is paid to his case, he would soon succumb to the hardships which he has been enduring for the last 9 months. Whatever may be the degree of his criminality, if any at all, we hope and trust that the law of mercy and the dictates of humanity will have their due, and that immediate steps will be taken to prevent any further physical suffering by the adoption of proper measures.
As we are going to press we find the following in the “Leader." of the 20th December, and we hasten to make room for it.
The Case of Pandit Arjun Lal Sethi. Sir,-Will you very kindly permit me the use of your columns to draw the attention of the public and the Government to the following: -
1. Are the public aware that Pandit Arjun Lal Sethi, B. A., of Jaipur, a Jain educationist, was arrested in March last, at Indore ? Was this in connection with the Delhi and Arrah cases ? Was any charge framed against him? If not, is it a fact that nothing could be proved against him and that
he was consequently released ? Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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