§ SIR H. COTTONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the case of the editor of the Hari Kishore, in the Central Provinces, who has been sentenced to five years hard labour for reprinting from another journal matter declared to be seditious, and to the confiscation of the press where this newspaper was printed, although it was not the property of the editor; and whether he will make inquiries into the facts of this case with a view to the reversal or modification of the sentence.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Secretary of State is acquainted with the facts of this case. He is aware of no reason for taking the exceptional action suggested by the hon. Member.
§ SIR H. COTTONIs it the fact that the article for publishing which the paper was prosecuted was a reprint of an editorial in the Calcutta Englishman?
§ MR. BUCHANANI have no information to that effect.
§ MR. KEIR HARDIEWas the paper in which the article originally appeared prosecuted?
§ MR. BUCHANANThat I cannot say. The information we have is not to the effect stated in the Question.
§ SIR H. COTTONDoes the hon. Gentleman realise that prosecutions of this character cause bitter and envenomed feelings—
§ *MR. SPEAKERThat is a matter of opinion.