§ 1. Mr. CECIL WILSON(for Mr. OLIVER)asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the number of persons in prison for political offences in India; and the number of persons in prison who have not been brought to trial and against whom no charge will be made in that country?
§ Earl WINTERTONThere are 634 prisoners at present in Indian prisons convicted under the ordinary law for offences of a political nature, and there are 324 in prison, including 212 Moplahs, who have not been brought to trial and against whom no charge will be made in a court. A paper giving the details will be circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following are the details:
§ Details of 634 prisoners convicted of offences of a political nature.
| Under section 121A of the Indian Penal Code. | 13 |
| Under Sections 121A and 124A | 19 |
| Under Section 124A | 46 |
| Under Sections 124A and 153A | 58 |
| Under Section 153A | 2 |
| Under Section 188 | 4 |
| Under Section 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure | 7 |
| Under Section 108 of the Code of Criminal Procedure | 9 |
| Under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908 | 448* |
| Under Sections 121, 121A and 124A of the Indian Penal Code, on account of the Ghadr Conspiracy of 1915 | 28 |
| 634 | |
| * Of these, three in Burma and the rest in the Punjab. |
§ Details of prisoners not to be brought to trial.
| Under the Bengal Ordinance | 60 |
| Under Regulation III of 1818 | 30* |
| Under the Madras State Prisoners Regulation, 1819 | 213† |
| Under Section 21 of the Frontier Crimes Regulation | 21‡ |
| 324 | |
| * Twenty-seven in Bengal, one in Assam and two on the North West Frontier. | |
| † All but one are Moplahs concerned in forcible conversions during the Moplah Rebellion. | |
| ‡ All trans-border men. |