CRIMINAL LIBEL
INDIAN JOURNAL FINED. SEQUEL TO EXPRESS DERAILMENT. (United Press Asaoolatloq.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, Aprjl 25. (Received April 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Forward, the Indian Extremist journal published in Calcutta which last July, on the occasion of the deliberate derailment of the express outside Calcutta with heavy casualties, published a letter by an alleged eye-witness stating that the wounded Indian passengers were murdered by the breakdown gang at the Instance of European officials, has been sentenced to pay a lakh and a-half of rupees damages. The criminal libel suit was undefended. The copy of the letter could not be traced.—United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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