INDIA—ALLEGED ASSAULT BY AN OFFICER UPON A NATIVE PLEADER IN THE HIGH COURT, MEERUT. (Hansard, 20 March 1884)

§ MR. O'DONNELL

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether his attention has been called to the circumstances of the assault by an Officer of the King's Dragoon Guards at Meerut upon a distinguished Bengalee pleader of the High Court, practising at the Meerut Bar; whether Captain Rogers was accused of having, on two different occasions, ridden up to this native barrister, and applying to him a most opprobious epithet, lashed him with his horse whip for not having salaamed to him; whether the accusation was proved before the Cantonment Magistrate; whether the sentence of the Court declared that— It is proved that the Officer did assault Babu Bhola Nath Mookerjee without provocation, and that the abusive words used by him were such an intentional insult as he knew to be likely to cause a breach of the public peace; whether the Cantonment Magistrate sentenced the said Captain Rogers only to a fine of less than 200 rupees; whether the only reason given by the Cantonment Magistrate for so light a sentence was that, if he had given a heavier sentence, he would have been bound by Law— To make a special Report to the Commanding Officer of the regiment to which Captain Rogers belongs; and, whether the Military authorities have taken, or intend to take, any notice of conduct unbecoming an Officer?