HC Deb 09 March 1925 vol 181 cc900-1
7. Mr. LANSBURY

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that two persons, Sarbat Ali and Belat Ali, of Chittagong, were arrested at Rangoon by Criminal Investigation Department officers, on information furnished by police informers, for being in possession of two automatic pistols and 47 rounds of ammunition and, after being kept in custody for two months, were acquitted by the western sub-divisional magistrate of Rangoon, who, after a four days' hearing of the case, pronounced the prosecution evidence as unworthy of belief; and what measures, if any, have been taken against the Criminal Investigation Department informers?

Earl WINTERTON

I have no information in the matter, but inquiry will be made.