§ MR. O'GRADYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether his 1822 attention has been called to the sentences of eighteen months imprisonment passed upon six men as a result of the riots at Lahore, also to one of nine months on another man and one of Hogging of thirty stripes on a youth, both involved in the same riots; whether he has power to intervene and order revision of the sentences of imprisonment: and whether he can, and will, in future give instructions that no sentences of floggings shall be given where it is obvious that imprisonment will meet the case.
§ MR. MORLEYI have seen reports of the cases referred to. I see no reason to intervene. The question whether imprisonment will meet any particular case is for the authority that tries the case to decide; but I am about to address the Government of India on the general subject of flogging. I may add that in the case to which my hon. friend refers the sentence has not been carried out, as the youth has been certified medically to be unfit to undergo the punishment.
§ MR. O'GRADYThen in that case the sentence of flogging will not be carried out?
§ MR. MORLEYCertainly not.