§ MR. SCHWANNTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the Durbhanga case, in which Babu Chandi Persad, a Rajput gentleman of high caste and social position, was cast into prison on the information of a certain Mr. Miller that Chandi Persad had threatened to assault him, by Mr. M. B. Heycock district magistrate, who asked the prisoner for fifty sureties of 1,000 rupees, and ref used those offered by the most respectable men in the neighbourhood; and whether, seeing that Chandi Persad was only released on the order of the High Court, he will cause Mr. Heycock to be removed to some other district.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I have no information as to the circumstances referred to in the Question, but I have no doubt that the local government and the Viceroy will take any action that may seem to be called for.