INDIA.
PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR OF A NEWSPAPER IMPRISONED. Received February 17, 5.56 p.m. CALCUTTA, February 16. The proprietor o£ a native newspaper has been sentenced at Lahhore to two years' imprisonment and fined a thousand rupees for having published an unverified rumour. The defendant pleaded publication in good faith. The editor of the paper, who was indicted for sedition by publishng petitions containing wicked statements, received a sentence ; of six months' imprisonment and was ordered to pay a fine of two hundred rupees. After the trial a crowd of Hindus paraded the streets gesticulating and hooting Europeans.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8361, 18 February 1907, Page 5
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97INDIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8361, 18 February 1907, Page 5
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