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2. Is it a fact that he was re-arrested? Was this arrest made by the Government of India or was it done by the Indore State on its own responsibility ?
3. Is it true that he was then handed over to the Jaipur State and that since then, for about 9 months, he has been in solitary confinement there? Was the second arrest mada at the request of the Jaipur State ? If so, did the State bring any charge against himn and try him ? Or, was lie handed over to the State to be kept there for the Government of India ? Was this step made necessary by the suspicion that something might be found against him in the coursc of the proceedings of the Delhi and Arrah cases ?
4. Both the trials have now ended. Is it true that nothing has been proved against him ? Is it also a fact that lie is still kept in confinement ? If so, is it justifiable for any Government thus to deprive any man of his liberty, causing great distress to his helpless wife and children and anxiety to the community to which he belongs ?
5. Is it a fact that now, even bis visit to the temple las been forbid.len? Is it not true that it was allowed before. Has anything fresh happened now to justify this order? Has any further evidence been found against him ? Or, did be in any way abuse the liberly formerly given him ?
6. Is it a fact that Pandit Arjun Lal las not taken bis food for tlie last eight days, since the issue of this new order, for staunch Jains do not take their food without visiting the temple ? Is he now allowed to visit the temple, or bas the State made it possible for him in any other way to take his food ? When suffragettes in England refuse to take their food, the Government persuades thein to do so ; for they cannot let a prisoner die, unless he has committed some heinous crime, requiring capital punishment. Will the life of Pandit Arjurr Lal Sethi be not endangered, if this state of things continues any more? Is it not then the duty of the Government to prevent any serious consequences that might naturally follow ? :
7. Is it again a fact that he has now been ordered to undergo 5 years' imprisonment ? JE so, has anytbing been Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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