§ MR. CAINE (Bradford, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if any compensation has been given to Sagal Samba Sajow and the six other Manipuris who were convicted of murder and sentenced to death or transportation for life by the Sessions Judge of Sylhet, which sentence was reversed and the prisoners all acquitted by the High Court of Calcutta after five months' imprisonment on the declared grounds that false evidence, tutored by the police and obtained by torture and other illegal practices, was submitted to the Sessions Judge, and that every Magistrate and Judge who tried the case in its various stages had been guilty of numerous and serious irregularities in the course of the proceedings, both before and during the trial?
§ * MR. H. H. FOWLERUntil I receive from the Government of India the Papers regarding the Baladhun case, I am unable to say whether there is any ground for giving compensation to the Manipuris who were accused of the murder of Mr. Cockburn.