POWERS SUSPENDED
INDIAN RULER IN TROUBLE
(Rec. noon.) NEW DELHI, Feb. 18,
The powers of administration of the Maharaja of Rewa have been suspended pending an .nquiry into criminal offences. An official statement "says that evidence has come into the possession of a Crown representative indicating his complicity in certain criminal offences of so grave a nature that the Viceroy has referred the case to a commission of inquiry. It was necessary that further investigation should be made within the Rewa State and the Viceroy was convinced that such investigation could not satisfactorily be conducted while the Maharaja remained in charge of the administration or within the State boundaries. As he was unwilling to reside outside the State and abstain from auy interference with the conduct of the inquiry, the Viceroy suspended his powers of administration and deputed a political officer to take temporary charge of the r.ffairs of the State.
Rewa is one of the States in Central India. Maharajadhiharaja Sir Bulab Singh Bahadur is 39. He has had full ruling powers since 1922.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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