অপরাধে তাহার দোষ সাব্যস্ত হইল। তিনি আইনের চরমদও দণ্ডিত হইবার আজ্ঞা প্রাপ্ত হইলেন।[১] যে পর্য্যন্ত তাঁহার
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THE TRIAL OF THE SENAPATI.
THE JUDGMENT.
FIRST COUNT OF THE CHARGE.
The accused pleads not guilty to the first court of the charge against him, viz., waging war againsä the Queen-Empress, and though he admits having fired upon the British troops sent to arrest him, he states that he did so more in self-defence than with any idea of waging war against the Queen.
That it was the intention of the Manipuri Durbar to resist forcibly any order of the Government of India, which was not in accordance with their wishes. We have the evidence of Bamon Charan Mukerji, clerk to the Regent, who states that preparation for resistance and attack was made a fortnight before the arrival of the Chief Commissioner.
The Manipnri Durbar had heard that the late Maharaja of Manipur, who had abdicated, was on the road from Kohima to Manipur, in company with the Chief Commissioner of Assam, and the accused does not deny that warlike preparations
