TWO YEARS' SENTENCE
'•'FRONTIER GANDHI" BOMBAY, Dee. 15. Abdul Gaffar Khan, leader of the North West Frontier "Red Shirt" movement, has been sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment. Abdul Gaffar Khan, known as the "frontier Gandhi," was charged with having committed sedition in a speech in which he alleged that Indian .soldiers had fired, killing 200 people, and also with having declared that a North-West Province Government was promulgating Jaws for the purpose of stirring up trouble, while the police aimed at fomenting unrest.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 5
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