పుట:Sweeyacharitramu Kandukuri VeeresalINGAM 1915 450 P Sarada Niketanam Guntur.pdf/83

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మొు ద టిప్ర, కరణ ము உ8 edly a public scandal), then if defendant’s enquiries were made fairly and with ordinary care and caution and his statements were not irrelevant to that enquiry, the single circumstance that he had a personal feeling against the plaintiff in other matters will not suffice by itself to destroy the privilege which would attach to his statements. He has to be judged by his whole conduct in the matter from the time of Sankaramma's first complaint to him; and as to this the evidence above set out can, I think, leave little doubt. 29. Had defendant been actuated by malice, he would surely have taken the earlier opportunity he had when Sankaramma was going about making no secret of her suspicions against plaintiff. His whole proved conduct shows that he entered upon his enquiries under pressure from Sankaramma and with the distinct authority of herself and Ramabrahmam that he went straight to plaintiff at the earliest opportunity and that he discouraged any precipitancy in filing the charge. No doubt he omitted to have the premises watched and might perhaps have sifted the matter more minutely than he did, but I can find nothing in the evidence to show that he acted without ordinary care or in any unfair or undue manner, and he was acting in the most obvious interests of the persons concerned. The evidence shows what defendant had before him pointing to plaintiff's hand in the stone-throwing especially plaintiff's own silence and no alternative theory or information was vouchsafed to him by plaintifs. And in all the cirumstances before him, there can, I think, be little doubt that defendant did honestly believe that plaintiff instigated the stone-pelting. That was his statement elicited from him by B. V. Jogayya and Srinivasa Row (plaintiff's 4th witness and defendant’s 27th witness) in the course of his duty to Sankaramma and Ramabrahmam and the public under the authority given him by those persons and to