Storia do Mogor 65.4.8

65.4.8

Fear of this punishment was the cause of a cazi's (qazi's) action. A youth who had demanded justice against a relation paid to this qazi twenty thousand rupees for a favourable decision of his claim. The relation had been entrusted by the plaintiff's father with all his wealth, his son being then an infant. The defendant in turn paid thirty thousand rupees to obtain an unjust decree. The qazi went off to the king and reported that he had been paid thirty thousand rupees to give an unjust decree. The king, having been informed of the truth, forced the relation to pay to the youth the whole sum claimed, and ordered the thirty thousand rupees to be placed in the royal treasury. The qazi appropriated the twenty thousand rupees, and retained at the same time the reputation of a just judge.