§ MR. O'GRADY (Leeds, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the sentences of five years imprisonment passed upon the editors of the vernacular papers, India and Hindustan; whether he can state if the editors were summarily arrested after the issue of their papers, or summoned to appear on a stated charge before the Courts; and whether he can state under what law or regulations they were so arrested or summoned to appear before the Courts.
§ MR. MORLEYThe editors were dealt with under Sections 124A and 131 of the Indian Penal Code. The offence is one for which a warrant is ordinarily issued in the first instance.
§ MR. O'GRADYIs it usual to handcuff persons when arrested under the Code?
§ MR. MORLEYI am not aware that they were. I will inquire.
§ MR O'GRADYThey were in this case.