§ 3. Mr. MILLSasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the reason why Professor Gidwani is still kept in prison, although the sentence of imprisonment has been cancelled by the Government of India?
§ Mr. RICHARDSDr. Gidwani is serving a sentence of 2½ years' imprisonment which was passed on him in September, 903 1923, after trial at Nabha on charges of entering the State against the orders of the Administrator and of joining an unlawful assembly. The sentence has not been cancelled by the Government of India., but it was suspended so long as Dr. Gidwani absented himself from the Nabha State, which he was ordered to leave when the sentence was pronounced. As he thought fit to return in February last, in the company of the first Shahidi Jatha, he was rearrested in Nabha territory, and committed to prison to serve the original sentence.