§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will call upon the Indian Government to publish information about(a) the names and (b) the number of persons detained in India without trial and details of the capacity of prisons in (a) the Punjab, (b) Kashmir and (c) Assam with details of payments made in each of the last five years to members of the security forces in respect of causing the death of a person deemed a militant and/or a terrorist; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe Government of India regularly publish information regarding the number of detentions under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, most recently in response to a parliamentary question in the Indian upper house on 10 March. Names of detainees are not released. Details of prisons are available for each state from the inspector general of prisons for individual states. We are aware that rewards have been paid to members of the public and police, but not the Army, for the capture of named individuals. We are not aware that there is a general system of payments for the capture of alleged militants or terrorists.