§ SIR H. COTTON () Nottingham, E.I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Bill for the amendment of the Whipping Act, which has been introduced into the Legislative Council of the Government of India, reduces the number of stripes for juveniles and tends to limit the number in other cases such as rape and robbery with violence; whether the Bill still permits the punishment of flogging for petty larceny; whether it contains a provision that no whipping should be inflicted by order of a Court unless and until the person convicted has had a reasonable opportunity of carrying his case before a Court of Appeal; and whether he is now in a position to give any further information regarding the character and tendency of the proposed legislation.
§ MR. MORLEYI have not yet received the text of the Bill as introduced. When I do so I will place a copy in the Library.