§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he has yet received the full Papers relating to the Baladhun murder case, promised by the Government of India some months ago; and, if so, will be lay upon the Table of the House the full official Reports of the proceedings before the Magistrates and the District Sessions Court of Silchar, the proceedings before the Criminal Apellate Bench at Calcutta, and all Correspondence on the trials between the 597 Government of India and the Government of Assam, and the Government of India and the India Office?
§ * MR. H. H. FOWLERThe Papers regarding the Baladhun case have not yet reached me, and I am, therefore, at present unable to say what Papers can be given.
§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if the special punitive police force, quartered on suspected villages in the neighbourhood of Baladhun, has been removed: and if, in view of the judgment of the High Court of Calcutta acquitting the inhabitants of these villages charged with the murder of Mr. Cockburn, the manager of the Baladhun tea garden, it is intended to return to the authorities of these villages the sums of money levied for the maintenance of the police?
§ * MR. H. H. FOWLERIn reply to my hon. Friend's question, I beg to state that the punitive police which were quartered on suspected villages round Baladhun had been found necessary quite independently of the murder of Mr. Cockburn and before it occurred.