§ Mr. JAMES O'GRADYasked the Under Secretary of State for India whether, in the appeal of Mr. Kothandaramayya against his dismissal by the Madras Government, it was found that the inquiry which preceded his dismissal was in violation of the rules which assure to public servants protection against dismissal except after a judicial inquiry conducted either under India Act 37 of 1850 in the case of high officers of his rank or under departmental rules in the case of inferior officers; whether it is obligatory on the Government to conform to those rules so as to afford opportunities to accused public servants to vindicate themselves before they are condemned and deprived of their living; whether the Madras Government professed in its order to have given Mr. Kothandaramayya a thoroughly judicial inquiry while he was contending that he had not been so much as heard in defence; and whether, having regard to these facts, the case of Mr. Kothandaramayya will be re-opened for reconsideration?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEIn reply to a question from the hon. Member on the 30th July last the Under-Secretary of State stated that the late Secretary of State, after inquiring very fully into the case, saw no sufficient reason for disturbing the order passed by the Madras Government dismissing Mr. Kothandaramayya from his appointment, and that the present Secretary of State, on a full consideration if a renewed appeal by the memorialist, had declined in July, 1907, to re-open the question. The Secretary of State has nothing to add to the reply then given.