At London in the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, before Lord Justice Darling and a special jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times:
Great writers have sometimes sought to paint the underworld. Not the most daring among them put...
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