51. Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the Prime Minister if Pandit Jagat Narayan, who in 1917 accused Sir Michael O'Dwyer of having imprisoned thousands of people without trial, and who subsequently undertook to make a public withdrawal of this false charge, has yet done so; if this person is identical with the Mr. Naryan who has signed the Minority Report of Lord Hunter's Commission on the Punjab disturbances; and, if so, will he state who was responsible for placing on the Commission a person who had already, by his own confession, been guilty of false and seditious statements of a glaring character.
§ The PRIME MINISTERI should be much obliged if my hon. and gallant Friend would address this question to the Secretary of State for India.
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)I do not like to do so without preparing a carefully written answer, and if the hon. Gentleman will be good enough to put it down for Monday, I will answer him.