Modi, J.—This is a second appeal by the plaintiff Ramdas and others in a suit for damages for defamation.

2. The plaintiff was the Pujari of Shri Raghunathjis temple in village Sanwatra at all material times. The defendants are residents of that village. The plaintiffs case was that the defendants made an application on Posh Vadi, 11, Svt. 1998 to the Mahkma Khas of the State of Mewar, as it then was, and later during the course of an enquiry emanating from that application gave statements before the Assistant Settlement Officer on the 3rd May, 1945, in which they stated that the plaintiff was not a man of good character, that he did not perform the worship of the temple regularly or properly, that when he was being asked to perform the worship properly he assumed an attitude of aggression and behaved violently, that he had blocked the way to the temple and that he also beat the gwalas, both women and men, when they brought firewood from the jungle, and, therefore, he was not fit be allowed to continue as a Pujari of the temple. The plaintiffs contention was that all these allegations were false and defamatory, and, there fore he claimed damages to the extent of Rs. 500/- from the d

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