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For local sight seeing we were able to hire two
motor cars at Rs. 5 each a day, paying for the petrol ourselves. When Sir ]ai Lal was about to retire from the Bench in the year 1937, some prominent persons asked me to see Sir Douglas Young, as they understood that, if I requested him, he would be only too willing to appoint me a judge in the vacancy. I emphatically declined to do so. It is in the highest tradition of the Bar that if any member is called upon to take up a judgeship, he should do so, but he should never wangle for it.
In the year 1939, the Arya Samaj started agitation against the Hyderabad Government as it had put restrictions on the exercise of the religious rights of tho. Arya Samajists in the State. About 14,000 Arya Samajists from different part of India offered Satyagraha in the State by simply sitting down to say their prayers in public. They were arrested on the spot for their effrontery in doing so in a Muslim State. Most of them were kept in Hyderabad, Gulberga or Aurangabad jails. In the company of Principal Mehar Chand of the D. A. V. College, Lahore, I visited Hyderabad. We did not intend to confine our activities to meeting prisoners in different jails but also wanted to explore if any settlement could be arrived at between the Government and the Arya Samaj. Seth Ramakrishna Dalmia, my host in Bombay, gave me a letter of introduction to Sir Akbar Hyderi who was then the Prime Minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. With that letter, we met Sir Akbar Hyderi and the British Home Minister of the State. They gave us permission to visit the different jails and also discussed with us how an amicable settlement could be brought about. On learning from them the terms on which they were willing to discontinue arresting innocent Arya Samajists, I held a telephonic communication with Mr. Deshbandhu Gupta, secretary of the movement at Delhi.
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