Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he was aware that the High Court of Calcutta, in what was known as the Bogra Gang case, had recently acquitted twenty-nine men who had been all convicted by the sessions judge of Bogra of alleged dacoity, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five years to life sentences; that the trial lasted two months and 250 witnesses were called for the prosecution; and that the case against the accused depended mainly upon the evidence of a police informer which the High Court held to be unreliable; and whether the Secretary of State could say upon whose advice this prosecution was launched upon such evidence?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)The Secretary of State has no information on this subject, but has telegraphed for a report.