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The court had then dismissed an appeal against a high court ruling that quashed criminal proceedings against Husain in the cities of Bhopal, Indore and Rajkot, condemning the rise of a "new puritanism" in India.

"After my child was born, I was unwilling to stay at Indore. I was unwilling because the nurses killed the female child that was born," Mumtaz Begum told the court.

Following a lead given by Shafi Ahmed, the only attacker captured at the scene, the Bombay police arrested seven men from Indore.

Most of the arrested men were employed by the Indore princely state, had applied for leave around the same time and were in Bombay at the time of the crime.

Jinnah defended Anandrao Gangaram Phanse, one of the accused and a top general with the Indore army.