HC Deb 16 February 1915 vol 69 cc1017-8W
Mr. SWIFT MacNEILL

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will state, province by province, for the years 1912 and 1913, the number of persons charged with murder in India, the number of capital sentences passed, the number of persons acquitted of the charge of murder, the number of appeals by local governments against such acquittals, and the number of persons sentenced to death as: the result of such appeals?

Mr. C. ROBERTS

The information asked for cannot be obtained from the annual reports, and could be procured

only by special examination of judicial records in every province in India. In view of the urgent calls upon the time of officials at present, the Secretary of State considers that to engage upon this statistical research would involve disproportionate labour.