DEATH FOR VIOLENCE
NEW LAW IN PUNJAB SPECIAL AREAS DEFINED Rec. 8 p.m. NEW DELHI, Mar. 19. An Act providing for the death penalty for attempted murder, abduction, rape, banditry and arson was announced by the Governor of the Punjab, Sir Evan Jenkins. “The Punjab Disturbed Areas Act,” . specifies the northern and western Punjab and sevprai large towns including Amritsar, Lahore and Jullundur, and it empowers magistrates and police officers to open fire or use other means, even of causing death, against anyone disobeying the ban on assembly of over five persons and of carrying weapons. A Government communique issued at Lahore to-day states that casualties in the rural areas of the Punjab province during the communal disorders were very large and that raiders from across the frontier helped the local inhabitants in their misdeeds. Reuter’s Peshawar correspondent reports that 2000 members of a proCongress Moslem organisation called the Red Shirts, arrived in Peshawar to help check communal rioting. A North-West Frontier Government spokesman said that they were unarmed and would use non-violent methods.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26416, 21 March 1947, Page 5
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