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27 dically cleansed by the Jains without any permission having been asked for the purpose. The silt drawn from the tanks had necessarily to be thrown on the adjoining land. In the year 1919, on the plea that the adjoining land belonged to the Durbar, it was urged that permission should be obtained to throw the silt on it. In order to avoid an unnecessary dispute, permission was asked for and granted. In granting a similar permission in 1921, the Durbar used language suggesting that permission was also necessary to cleanse the Kunds, thereby throwing doubt on the ownership of the Jain community over the Kunds. The latter objected to the form of the order challenging by implication the hitherto undisputed ownership of the Jain community over the Kunds, and in order to make the position clear put certain boards on the Kunds. A long and harassing correspondence ensued and the Durbar forcibly removed the boards placed by the Jain community, and actually arrested the servants of the Jain community in charge of the Kunds and convicted and sentenced them. They even went to the length of forcibly removing the board enjoining cleanliness in the use of the tanks within the Gadh. In further aggravation of this unjustifiable interference, the Durbar ordered the Jain community to pay the expense of removing the boards, and in order to enforce payment of
