Simla, Aug. 23, The Assembly to-day, by 52 votes to 39, in spite of the opposition of the Home Member, passed a bill repealing and amending certain provisions of the Indian Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1908.
The bill empowers an aggrieved party to appeal to the High Court on the ground that the association in respect of which he is convicted is not an unlawful association, and extends the provisions of habeas corpus to British subjects in India.
The Home Member pleaded that the Act had not been abused and declared that the bill would deprive the Executive of very useful powers. He referred as an instance to the Irish Free State Executive arming itself with such powers—Reuter.
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