§ 16. Sir WILLIAM BYLESasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the policemen convicted in the Poonah torture case have appealed to the Bombay High Court; if so, whether the convictions have been confirmed; and what comments, if any, on the conduct of the police were made by the Court?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI have made inquiry, and will communicate the information to my hon. Friend when it comes.
§ 18. Mr. MORRELLasked the Undersecretary of State for India when he expects to receive from the Government of India the promised Report as to the desirability of amending the criminal law in the matter of confessions of guilt with a view to preventing torture by the police; or, if he has already received it, whether he will lay it upon the Table of the House?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI would remind my hon. Friend that I told him on the 3rd June that the Government of India hoped to communicate their views that month. This meant that their dispatch was to be expected by about the middle of July—as I explained on the 1st instant. It has not yet come.