CRIME IN INDIA
MARKED DIMINUTION. CALCUTTA, July 16. The latest police report dealing with conditions of law and order in Calcutta says that, while there was an increase in the total crime cases last year, the total number of cognisable cases mounting from 98,000 to 105,000, the vast majority of cases were trifling offences against the traffic regulations. The figures for serious crime showed a marked diminution, which the Government attributes partly to. the vigilance and efficiency of the police, but as mainly due to the action of the Legislative Council in giving Mr. Tegart, .the Commissioner of Police, power summarily to deport known violent ruffians without visible means of support. • Since the police were given these powers two years ago fifty-six such persons have been deported. Revolutionary crime was seriously increasing until the British Government and the Government of India sanctioned special detentions and arrests last October. Since then it has been completely stopped and no fresh case has been recorded for nine months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 3
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