HC Deb 31 July 1931 vol 255 cc2631-3
28. Mr. BRACKEN

asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the murder of Judge Garlick and Lieutenant Hext and the attempted assassination of Sir John Hotson and Lieutenant Sheehan by Indian revolutionaries, His Majesty's Government will now reconsider their Indian policy and reincarcerate the prisoners released from gaol under the Irwin-Gandhi agreement, and dissolve revolutionary organisations such as the red-shirt movement?

Mr. BENN

The honourable Member appears to overlook the fact that persons undergoing imprisonment for violent offences were expressly excluded from the recent amnesty. The second part of the question has been dealt with in earlier replies.

Mr. BRACKEN

Is it not a fact that the release of such a large number of prisoners from gaol in India was a definite encouragement to these assassins?

Mr. BENN

That is a matter of opinion.