MURDER DUPES

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 10

MURDER DUPES

, WRONG MEN PUNISHED. I Strong comment on the “increasing tendency to eulogise murder was made !by Mr Justice Lort-Wilhams, in the Calcutta High Court, in sentencing o death two young Punjabi Moham- : medans for the murder in a Calcutta 1 bookshop, on May 7, of the proprietor, ■ Bholanatli Sen, and two assistants, j In the course of his judgment Mr ' Justice Lort-Williams said that lie had noticed lately that persons holding ’responsible positions in Calcutta nncl 1 elsewhere had made speeches palliating murder, eulogising terroism, and the i “self-sacrifice” which they say, is dis- | played by the murderer and extolling 1 his courage, and devotion in pursuit of an ideal. This amounts to direct incitement to others to show equal devotion. “Let me warn the men who make these speeches,” said the Judge, “that they cannot be surprised if those who hold this view apply a similar maxim to the murder of Hindus by Mohammedans or the murder of Mohammedans by Hindus. Those who make these speeche s are the real offenders. They are the instigators of these crimes, but they escape prosecution. Doubtless, these poor youths were actuated and instigated by others much too wise to bring themselves within the clutches of the law. Instead of them, their dupes have to pay the penalty.”