How Haque Reacted To Sir Henry’s Betrayal
An utterly broken and betrayed Haque withdrew himself from further research. Hem Chandra Bose, on the other hand, was determined to give it another fight. He would go on to develop a telegraphic code system that would facilitate fingerprint information-sharing among crime agencies all around the world. He would also pen down the authoritative book Hints on Fingerprints with a Code for Fingerprints. Another episode of betrayal happened when one Englishman Charles Collins published a book on the same topic without referencing or acknowledging Bose’s work.
Towards the fag end of his career— decades after the betrayal—Haque decided to represent his case to the government with a clipping from The Statesman which stated, “A Muhammaden Sub-Inspector played an important and still insufficiently acknowledged part [in fingerprint classification]”. When this letter was referred to then Director of Intelligence Bureau, he wrote back:
“…in…