§ MR. J. F. X. O'BRIEN (Mayo, S.)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Under what circumstances Chinna Narrain, a Monegar in the Chingleput District, is now on his trial for embezzling 700 rupees, Government money, in 1882, though this charge, after most careful inquiry, was at the time dismissed by a competent Court as false; and, whether two other cases connected with the notorious Chingleput scandal of 1882 have lately been re-opened by Government?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The case alluded to in the first paragraph appears to be proceeding before the regular judicial tribunals; and the Secretary of State has no official information respecting it. Of the two cases referred to in the second paragraph the Secretary of State knows nothing.