Judgement was given in Lahore on 'Tuesday in the Lahore sedition and riot cases, The editor and publisher of the {ndia, a vernacular newspaper, were each sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment. The riots, it may be remembered, took place when the judgement was pronounced in the somewhat similar " Punjabee" case, Two of the prisoners were released, one sentenced to 30 stripes, one to nine months' rigorous imprisonment, and the remaining six to eighteen months' rigorous imprisonment. After" sentence was pronounced in the riot case, one of the prisoners most heavily sentenced rose and made speech in Urdu than the court for patient investigation and absolute justice. Another prisoner rose and agreed with all his fellow had said; their action was somewhat remarkable, as they could not in anyway hope to benefit thereby, sentence being already pronounced.
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