§ 9. Mr. GILBERTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any special prisons are maintained in India for European civilian or military prisoners; if so, how many and where they are situated; and whether Europeans under punishment are detained in the same prisons as natives of India?
§ Mr. RICHARDSNo special prisons are maintained in India for the relatively small number of European prisoners sentenced under the ordinary criminal law, but it is the practice in the various provinces to arrange for their confinement in the more central gaols, or special sections of gaols, where they can receive separate and suitable accommodation. British officers and soldiers sentenced to imprisonment by courts-martial for purely military offences are, if they remain in India, kept in military prisons or detention barracks. There is a combined military prison and detention barrack at Poona, and detention barracks at Aden, Lucknow, Quetta, Trimulgherry and Sialkote. It is customary to transfer military prisoners sentenced to a term of imprisonment or detention exceeding 12 months to a prison or detention barracks in the United Kingdom as soon as practicable.