§ 4. Sir J. D. REESasked whether the two cases of torture recently established against the Indian police are characteristic of the methods of that force, or whether they are isolated and exceptional in character?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe Returns show that during the last five years there have been fifty-seven cases in a force of 170,000 men in which constables were convicted of ill-treating prisoners or witnesses. This ill-treatment could not, in very many cases, be properly described as torture.