CRIME IN INDIA.
MARRED DIMINUTION. * DEPORTATION OF RUFFIANS CALCUTTA, July 16 ' The latest police report dealing with conditions of law and order in ■‘Calcutta says that while there was ah. increase in the total crime cases last year, the total' number of cbgnisable cases . mounting from 98,000 to 105,000 the vast majority of cases were i trifling offences against the traffic regulations. . The figures for serious crime showed a mark diminution, which the Government attributes partly to the vigi’ance and efficiency of the police, but as mainly due to the actof the Lesislation Council in giving Mr, Tegart, the Commissioner of Police, power summarily to deport ruffians without visible means of support. Since the police were given these powers two years ago fifty-six such persons have been deported. Revolutionary crime was seriously increasing until the British Government and the Government of India sanctioned speciai detentions and arests last October. Since then it has been completely stopped and no fresh case has been recorded for nine months.
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Shannon News, 7 August 1925, Page 3
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166CRIME IN INDIA. Shannon News, 7 August 1925, Page 3
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