§ Sir HENRY COTTONasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he can state the total number of cases in which whipping has been inflicted as a gaol punishment in each province in India during the years 1906, 1907, and 1908?
The MASTER of ELIBANKThe figures are as follows:—
1906 1907 1908 Madras 19 40 52 Bombay 100 108 108 Bengal 113 83 116 Eastern Bengal and Assam 58 52 45 United Provinces 91 97 77 Punjab 65 63 70 Central Provinces 86 86 100 Burma 129 121 124 North-West Frontier Province 7 2 2 668 652 694