§ Major Beamishasked the Under-Secretary of State for India what decisions have now been reached in regard to the trial of those former members of the I.N.A. who are accused of gross brutality against their own countrymen.
§ Mr. A. HendersonI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Mr. B. Taylor) on 3rd December, 1945, in which I set out the policy of the Government of India with regard to the prosecution of Indian Army personnel who joined the Japanese sponsored Indian National Army. So far one person has been tried and convicted by court martial on charges of gross brutality against his own countrymen. So far as can be foreseen at present, approximately 20 other persons are to be brought to trial on similar charges.