9. Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can state in what language the police records are kept in the Balliguda, Gumsur, and Chatrapur divisions of the district of Ganjam, and what is the language spoken by the majority of the population in those parts; and whether he is aware that, although these records are not open to inspection by the general public, they are exhibited in the course of the trial by courts, and the parties to the action are entitled to public copies of them?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Acland)The Secretary of State has no information as to the first part of the hon. Member's question, except that police vernacular records are kept in Telegu in Ganjam in all circles but one. As regards the second part, under certain conditions the parties are allowed, at the instance of the Court, to call for police diaries and to inspect them. The conditions are prescribed in 1156 the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTIs the hon. Gentleman aware that these records are kept in Telegu in the Uriya-speaking districts, whereas the Uriyas are appointed to a district which is not Uriya speaking?
§ Mr. ACLANDI am not aware. I should have to obtain the information from my hon. Friend the Secretary of State.
10. Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in the district of Ganjam, out of 545 police officers 291 are Uriyas; whether, practically, the whole of these Uriya officers are stationed in the Balliguda division, which consists largely of malarious unhealthy tracts inhabited by non-Uriya-speaking hill tribes; whether he can state for what reason Uriya officers are not appointed to any proportional extent to the Uriya-speaking parts of Ganjam, namely, the Gumsur and Chatrapur divisions?
§ Mr. ACLANDThe figures cited by the hon. Member are correct, but the Secretary of State has no information as to the distribution of individual constables in Ganjam.