TERRORIST ACTIVITY
DISORGANISED BY FIRM MEASURES NO AMNESTY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, March 30. Contrary to public expectation, it has been announced that the Indian Government is not granting an amnesty to political prisoners in connection with the jubilee celebrations. • Defending the increase of £30,000 for the provincial cost of detention of political offenders, Mr R. Reid (a home member) stated in the Bengal Legislative Council that the terrorist situation had improved not because of Congress’s abandonment of revolutionary activity, but because firm Government measures had disorganised the movement. * CONGRESS ATTITUDE ATTACKED LONDON, March 30. The Delhi correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that Sir Nfipendra Nath Sircar (a law member), opposing a private Bill for the repeal of the antiterrorist law, quoted 56 cases of crime in,Bengal, in which over 56 Congressmen were convicted. Ho drew attention to the glorification by the Congress of executed terrorists and its condonation of violence.
The speech was obviously unpalatable to Congressmen.
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 12
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