UNREST IN INDIA

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 3

UNREST IN INDIA

! PUNISHED FOR SEDITION . f HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION r — I Received Feb 17, 5.6 p m I Calcutta, Feb 16 t The proprietor of a native newsl paper has been sentenced at Lahore \ to two years imprisonment, and fined \ one thousand rupees for having publ isbed an unverified rumour. The | defendant pleaded that the publica- \ tion was in good faith. The editor : of the paper who indicated sedition ) by publishing fictitious and wickod \ statements received a sentence of si* f months and was ordered to pay a I fine of two hundred rupees. \ After the trial a crowd of Hindus % Paraded tho streets gesticulating, and I hooting the Europeans.