§ Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India who were the organisers of the Akali agitation amongst the Sikhs who have been successfully prosecuted by the Punjab Government; whether they were inhabitants of the Punjab or not; and what steps have been taken to prosecute the guiding hands from other provinces who have been working with the view of inflaming the Sikhs and the population generally against the Government and to compromise ex-soldiers in the movement, and who are said in the Indian Press to be those who brought about the rebellion in the Punjab of 1919, and caused the Moplah rebellion in Malabar?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe organisers prosecuted were the principal members of the Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee. They were residents of the Punjab. As to the prosecution of other persons, I must refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which I gave him last week.