MR. J. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will state whether the alteration made in Section 4 of the Indian Penal Code by the new Sedition Law will make a Native Indian subject of the Queen triable in India, and after his return to India, for anything supposed to be seditious which he may write in a British journal, or speak on a British platform, during his residence in this country?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThe enactment referred to exactly follows the words of the Statute 32 and 33 Vic., cap. 98, sec. 1, which gives the authority to make such a law. The hon. Member is as competent as I am to form an opinion whether the authority extends to such a case as he has supposed. I need only add that I do not conceive it possible that such a case should arise.