I will illustrate this. And I am telling you what His Excellency our present Governor-General said when he took part in the discussion on the Estate Lands Committee report in the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1939. Say that I have a house in a village near Delhi. I passed, say B. L., and was coming to Delhi for starting my practice. I gave that house on rent to Mr. Munshi saying “you please pay me Rs. 8 as rent every month”. But as I was just leaving I met Mr. Krishnaswami Ayyar and I said to him “please collect Rs. 8 from Mr. Munshi every month and send me Rs. 6 and for the trouble you take please take Rs. 2 as commission”. After ten years I returned to my place and found that there were few tiles on the roof or no cement at all on the flooring. Then I asked Mr. Munshi “How is it you have kept my house in bad repair though I gave it to you for a small rent of Rs. 8 ?” Mr. Munshi said to me “I was paying Rs. 24 as rent for this house all along and Mr. Krishnaswami Ayyar has all along been collecting it”. This increase of rent from Rs. 8 to 24 was unauthorised and has been pocketted all along by the gentleman whom I requested just to collect the rent. The result was that neither the owner of the house nor the tenant thereof got any benefit out of the increase. The gentleman who was mere rent collector has been pocketing this difference of Rs. 16. If Shri Krishnaswami Ayyar gets what is called property in this transaction the zamindars also have property.
