§ SIR H. COTTONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to what is known as the Karur sedition case, in which a young man of nineteen years of age has been sentenced by the Judge of Coimbatore to five years transportation for making two seditious speeches, although he tendered an apology to the Government at the beginning of the trial and the assessors in Court strongly recommended him to mercy; and whether he will make inquiry into the facts of this case with a view to the remission or modification of the sentence.
§ MR. BUCHANANIn this case also it is open to the accused to appeal to the High Court.
§ MR. LUPTONasked whether there was still in India anything in the nature of free speech and a free Press.
§ MR. BUCHANANYes; a great deal of it.