§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the Secretary of State for India what has been the result of the prosecution of some 200 Mahomedans for rioting at Mymensingh.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) I have ascertained that in the Mymensingh rioting cases, 168 persons have been convicted, 126 acquitted or discharged, and thirteen committed for trial at sessions, while the cases of seventy persons are pending. Of the persons convicted, five have been sentenced to four years imprisonment, four to three years, seventeen to two years, two to twenty-one 135 months, thirty-three to eighteen months, forty to one year, six to nine months, and three to eight months' imprisonment.