INDIAN PRINCE SUED
LANDOWNER’S HUGE CLAIM.
[BY CABLE—PBESS assn. —COPYBIGHT.]
CALCUTTA. February 26. An amazing claim of six billion has been made against the Maharaja of Rewa, one of the ruling Princes ot Central India by Lola Ganga Prasad Singh, a landowner in the State. Ihe claim is based on the allegation that, about 150 years ago, the Maharaja Ajay Singh, the great-great-grandfath-er of the present Maharaja, borrowed £10,750 from the claimant’s great-great-grandfather, for which he executed a bond, but the money was never repaid, and the debt and interest have reached the present enormous sum. The claimant bases his suit under the Rewa State laws, where a time limitation does not apply in cases for the recovery of arrears from State subjects. The claimant has asked the State Government to permit him to institute a civil suit against the Maharaja in the State Courts for the recovery of the money.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 12
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